I can understand some of the reasons for it, although I personally am in favor of allowing authors to resolve markets in 99% of cases but being able to correct obviously wrong resolutions in cases like this: /jack/poll-should-it-be-possible-to-dispu

If you are considering massive reputation penalties for wrong resolution, even up to a ban, then why? Why not just fix the wrong resolution instead? Policy-wise, it makes no sense to me to penalize/ban someone for a wrong resolution rather but still say "authors are allowed to do whatever resolution they want". Technically, right now it is not possible to undo and fix a resolution, but that really is important for both accidental misresolutions as well, and I suspect that fixing resolutions is easier to implement technically than implementing a robust reputation syste