Automatic suspension of admins who have been inactive after a certain period sounds like a prudent idea - and also of admins who turn inactive after posting any kind of "resignation" message. By all means allow them to be re-activated on request without going through RFA .
Andrew
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gwern Branwen" gwern0@gmail.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, 10 May, 2009 14:58:39 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] someone after non-active admin accounts
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I would hope RFA is good enough to weed out people stupid enough to respond to such things...
It's expecting a bit much of RFA to not just pass only people who are suited for the job, but also pass only that subset which will never ever become burned out or embittered or angry or gullible or...in the indefinite future.
The difficult first task they do immediately, but the impossible will take a little longer.
On the other hand, this might prompt an inactive-deadminning guideline, which might be a good thing.