On 06/10/06, Parker Peters onmywayoutster@gmail.com wrote:
I mean, there's more than one way to do it. On Meta, adminship is for a year at a time, for example. On sr:, admins aren't just janitors but have editorial decision powers. Etc.
I seem to remember proposals for limited-term adminship on here at some point, but it was a while back and got shouted down pretty quick...
The practical effects on en: would be (a) a lot of people with experience going "o rly? you do it then." (b) the people with no experience then enthusiastically recapitulating the entire history of wikistupid as they make all the same mistakes again; (c) lots of really bad process wars, like late 2005 all over again once more with feeling, for maybe a couple of years; (d) turning adminship into quite definitely A Big Deal.
It strikes me as a bad idea with not much reason if the problem is that RFA isn't promoting suitable candidates because they're making a big deal of it. I'd address the problem at the RFA end, and am presently attempting to do so.
- d.