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.
Ec