From: Dan Grey dangrey@gmail.com
Worldtraveller's ideas have been proposed in several forms before, but AfD zealots always reject the idea as it would make their past-time harder (they'd have to go and edit talk pages, rather than edit all the votes on one big AfD page).
"AfD zealots" is extremely unhelpful language, and in my opinion undermines your arguments.
This is why I said it's impossible to get any sort of consensus for replacing AfD - the people who hang out there don't want it changed, and will (and have) vociferously oppose any proposals.
People who don't hang out there also oppose its deletion.
Jay.