geni wrote:
Juding by the backlogs and the burnouts I'd tend towards the position that the hyperactives are maxed out. The upshot of this is that unless we can find more hyperactives or get more of the long tail to join the hyperactives we are going to have problems.
Lowering the standards on RFA is meaningless unless you can show we will get more hyper actives rather than more paper admins.
Increaseing the activity level of the long tail is the other option but no one appears to have any ideas on how to do this (ok we could try to start admin action countitis but people tend to object to that suggestion.
I would tend to look toward the long tails, and more of the "quiet admin" as Stan describes himself. I'm sure that many good admins just don't want to get involved in the constant haggling that goes on. Some might quietly go ahead and work on cleaning up non-contentious backlog, but they aren't even going to try to become admins in the current scheme of things.
Ec