For Christ's sake, people.
Do none of you have a sense of wiki history?
We ALWAYS have this problem leading up to the new arbcom elections. Candidates are ALWAYS badgered on how they're going to make the committee faster. And then, come January, it hums along because it has a plurality of not burnt out members.
Then, come mid-year and fall, it starts to grind to a halt.
And apparently we have the same discussion as though we have forgotten that, over time, burnout happens.
We could maybe stagger elections to have two a year, but given how dreadful elections are, I think that's unlikely to be productive.
If it happens every year, that's all the more reason to do something about it, surely?
I think the current term length is too long. Things online move very fast - 3 years is an extremely long time. I think elections every 6 months, giving an 18 month term length, would work better. I know it's twice as many elections, but they're not really that time consuming - I think it's worth it.