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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>Having fixed terms is an excellent idea. One or
two<BR>year appointments would be ample, and would not be<BR>overly burdensom. A
sysop whose term had expired could<BR>stand for re-election after (say) 6
months.<BR>Mark</EM><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>No offense, but I think this is an extremely bad
idea. With </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>maybe one or two exceptions, our sysops are
trustworthy, </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>reliable, and obedient to the rules. Having
elections, on the </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>other hand, would be like ringing the dinner
bell for everyone </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>troll or vandal with an axe to grind against
a particular sysop </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>(or sysops). In addition, the administrative
overhead would be </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>fearsome. </FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><FONT size=2>I'd also like to point out that by your 1 sysop/1000
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>article standard, </FONT></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><FONT size=2>we're </FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>about
40 sysops below strength. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>Now, in the past, I have complained that a
lot of people are </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>getting nominated for adminship without being
here long enough. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>I think this criticism is valid. I don't
recognize most of the names </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>coming up on the RFA these days, and that
worries me. I think</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>people need to be a bit more critical of new
requests, but I don't </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>think that means that we should be trying to cull
down the number </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>of sysops - don't throw the baby out with the
bathwater. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>--Mark </FONT></DIV>
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