Keith Old wrote:
We should be encouraging users to participate in the process not discouraging them with artificial limits. It seems that many people who don't participate in the process are the most vocal about its supposed deficiencies. It's a bit like complaining about the quality of the politicians that are running the country while you don't vote.
I used to participate, as part of doing new pages patrol, but between the socks and the ignorant, the whole thing was so unpleasant and inefficient that I moved on to other WP activities. It's kind of a shame, because I've read perhaps 10% of all of en's articles, and edited on some 15K of them, so I'm in a pretty good position to know what fits, what doesn't, and what's redundant - but it's pointless to participate in a process where those who know nothing of a subject area can outvote the people who actually know something. WP only works because 99% of the time the ignorant are willing to defer to the knowledgeable; but VfD process works in the opposite way - the knowledgeable are made to do extra work to overcome the objections of the ignorant.
Stan