Parker Peters wrote:
It used to be, someone who'd been around and reliable had a shot.
Now, you have to get some group behind you (a pov pushing group or otherwise) to pad the vote count, you have to have not raised the ire of certain self-proclaimed "vandal fighters" by contradicting their trigger-happy and incivil behavior, and you have to satisfy an increasingly mind-bogglingly high edit count requirement.
But every time we bring this up, the debate goes on for about a week, and then it vanishes and nothing is ever done.
Did you seriously expect that it would be otherwise this time? Cleaning it up will take bold and courageous action by someone of fairly high stature.
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