On 2/9/07, Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote:
Users start out as being viewed with caution and suspicion, and must "earn" their admin "privileges" by fulfilling some ridiculous set of criteria.
I agree that the current process is broken; the criteria are increasingly unreasonable. One way to address this would be to whitelist the list of valid criteria, rather than allowing every user to come up with their own.
Another approach would be an Admin Appointment Board that would complement the existing process, but follow a more liberal philosophy and find consensus more quickly simply by being smaller.
I don't like your specific proposal much because I think the constant re-appointed would be process overkill, as would be the restriction on objections. Wikis don't scale that well to accommodate processes above a certain complexity.