Based on your numbers, a three month shut down would mean a backlog of some 1800 articles that would have to be dealt with in some other way. You may think this is insignificant enough to dismiss and ignore, I don't.
On 1/22/06, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
Rob (gamaliel8@gmail.com) [060123 10:04]:
On 1/22/06, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
My proposed idea remains: shut down AFD/DRV for a month. Make it three months.
Only if we expand the speedy deletion criteria accordingly. We really
don't
want to deal with a three month backlog of garage bands and ads for
Bob's
Muffler Shop.
Straw man. Wikipedia runs 4000 new articles/day, 2000 of which are shot on sight; AFD is maybe 200 articles a day *nominated* at present, which is a trickle by comparison. It really will not make substantial difference unless people start nominating to make a point. Which is shooting behaviour.