I’m getting concerned about the AE’s invading this non-AE thread. 
Get back in your exclusive thread… (lolz - joke).
I think the point is we all have our own little ways of persuasion. There in no “answer” to the question. Each misbehaving editor needs something different, and ultimately none of us would be here if we didn’t care for the data.
No arbitration. The official title is not BAFL as that sounds confusing - baffling even. The guideline says there is no appeal after the Word of the BDFL has been Said. So if they say “Thou shalt sit in the corner with the silly hat on” then that would be their Word. And it would be so. 