On 7/6/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
This would further shift control of the AfD process towards extremists who are heavily involved pushing their particular agenda and whom are often the source of the AfD hostility that keeps more moderate users away from the process.
How so? After all, the idea is to delay the process so that these extremists (which exist on either side of the spectrum) become recognizable as the lone voices which they are. Besides, I'm not proposing anything what these people could not have done already -- no change of policy is needed.
As such, I think it is most important that we settle such AfDs as quickly and efficiently as possible
In cases like Eon8, semi-protecting the page and/or relisting it later (weeks, months, a year -- whatever is appropriate for the situation) seems like a good way to achieve that. The more we are talking about bold actions by individual admins, the more you will have tension, escalation and accusations. Another option to reduce fighting about controversial decisions would be to allow a quorum of closing admins to make a decision quickly, rather than waiting for the full 5 days.
So, you could have:
Calling an admin quorum of 5 admins to keep and relist a year from now.~~~~ * Support.--~~~~ * Support--~~~~ => Passed
As for how long to wait with the relisting, I think it depends on the case. I suspect that much of the interest in Eon8 will have dissipated by August.
Erik