Thomas Dalton wrote:
Then from there, in my opinion, we can lower the bar, leave things as they are, or continue to pursue this everyone's an admin!!! deal.
If we want to lower the bar, we have to work out how to do it first. RfA doesn't use set standards, everyone decides based on their own criteria. Hundreds of possible replacements for RfA have been proposed and rejected, so it seems consensus is for a promotion system at least closely based on RfA, which makes lowering the bar very difficult.
There is no such consensus. The RfA system works for you because you use it, as do all the others who participate. There are far more people who just wash their hands of it., and just limit their activities to some narrow topic.
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