On 4/18/07, John Lee johnleemk@gmail.com wrote:
(You might dispute the assertion that this philosophy will only let a tiny amount of bad apples in, but I can't think of many, sorry, any bad apples who didn't get in under our present Kafkaesque gauntlet at RfA that would have gotten in under an RfA operating under the "no big deal" thinking I'm advocating.)
Any thoughts on how the current "gauntlet culture" developed? One wild guess might be that some of the current voters might have some time in the past been "burned" by an admin who didn't have one or more of the attributes they are looking for. One example would be someone who spent a lot of time and effort writing an article just to have it speedied by some admin with most of his edits in policy areas quoting WP:THIS or WP:THAT. An admin with experience with a project would be less likely to go decimate somebody else's project. (think webcomics)
In short, an admin with lots of experience writing "articles" would be less likely to nuke somebody else's hard work. Just a guess.