On 11/5/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
Working on it an hour a week, though, I could take. Especially if there were a way for me to see that a bunch of other people were sharing the burden.
What I'm saying is that it's not really about load-balancing or "sharing a burden". It's about undermining the (purely psychological) power structure of certain venues.
For a somewhat obvious example, you might covertly arrange for a flash mob, if you will, of "irregulars" to swoop in and close (sanely of course) every pending discussion at Deletion Review over the course of one hour. Yes, there would be a few raised eyebrows, even complaints, some of them from the two or three "regular" closers when they realize they've over-estimated their importance to the project, and might temporarily be left with nothing to do. Maybe they, in turn, will be flushed into pursuing other activities.
That's about as peaceful of a protest as one can hope for on Wikipedia, and it is adaptable to almost any forum.
—C.W.