While most of this is probably already known, worth saying so those who don't will go in with some warning.

Expectations: There's a lot more to being a member than meets the eye, a lot of which is done behind the scenes, and sometimes isn't even noticed by your fellow courtroom members. There's the obvious voting, case posting, finishing cases and adding people to the UBL. Then there's reviewing reports (marking what should go to the advisory, what should be posted/batch posted, what doesn't warrant posting), handling appeals to get removed from the UBL(as a result of the November update, players must modmail to get removed), discussions of potential rules, mods, cheaters, and sometimes tracking down and nailing evaders. While you most likely won't do all of that, you'll be expected to do at least some and help with the rest after 1-2 weeks.

Along with those, you are now considered an upstanding member of the community. This means you will be expected to keep out of drama where you can, NOT proliferate any arguments and such, keep maturity and a calm demeanor when dealing with staff on servers, players/trolls in modmail, etc. Someone calls you out on twitter? Don't fight fire with fire(civil responses of course are fine). Obviously, you're not going to have all your activity and such monitored, but major wrongs on your part will get back to other members, and lack of activity within the courtroom will be noted. Tread carefully if you wish to stay on.

The people: Unfortunately, most people on are extremely busy with school/work/personal stuff. Discussions/questions for procedure will get low responses(I found myself getting faster and higher quality responses from non-staff/spec chats ironically), and as you've seen, cases tend to last a while, posting is done by roughly the same third of the courtroom. You'll see for yourself pretty quickly who you can go to for help, and who not to go to. And like all jobs/volunteering, you'll encounter people you work well with, and (hopefully not, but a sad possibility), people who'll demotivate you from continuing.

The system: Reports tend to be round 60-100. Posting is simple, but can get tedious, especially when the above occurs. Along with this, you'll see some false banning, and false acquittal of cheating players (since it's a human system, no way to avoid encountering this). People disregard mining rules and such, or have stupid stupid digging that confounds them with X-rayers; people will be smart and do 1-2 inexplicable things, but get off from technicalities, lack of additional evidence, or successfully bringing up plausible defense. And of course your lovely evaders with their toys these days.

Then there's the low opinion from the community you serve. Courtroom's been one of the biggest jokes despite(even with the above), doing its job relatively well. Good amount have stopped caring even if they/their friends are banned; plenty of servers/people don't bother reporting to the courtroom. A lot of people have the "one mistake = total failure" mentality and (for the first few months I was on), brought up stuff that half the committee had nothing to do with due to not even being on at the time. Some mistakes won't get much backlash, others will get a large amount (as many have seen on twitter, people try to publicly humiliate others over just working it out, thus getting people not involved with whatever triggered this to start butting in).

If you don't think you'll be able to handle it, I strongly advise against applying. If you don't plan to do much of what is expected, do the community a favor and please don't apply. It isn't fair for an inactive person to take the slot of someone who'd help out, and you'll bring down the work of those around you.

All that said, it isn't all bad, and has several good parts to it. You get to work with and talk to some of the oldest and most knowledgeable  members of the reddit community. It become the first "friend group" I had for playing UHC/Sky Wars, as well as introduced me into speccing on servers. You also get to see your work from your respective servers (for those who are specs/hosts) helping keep reddit games a bit cleaner. Best of luck for those who proceed with intent to follow up on their applications.