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*Ducks for cover* the '3 admins request' you suggested would mean that we end up with very few admins left - recent wheelwars have occured (where more than 3 admins were involved in each side) where both sides would be happy to use this procedure to desysop each other. I do think we need to make it easier to desysop 'screw process'/'screw consensus' admins, but making it a '3 admins request' would a) Make spurious desysoppings far too easy and b) Lead to charges of cabalism - why should admins only hold office at the pleasure of OTHER ADMIMS?
A better idea would be one of the perennial 'requests for deadminship' proposals, but the problem with these is not creating a logjam of automatic renominations (as the 'required to reapply every year' proposals would do) or violating WP:VIE (as the 'petition required to initiate new RFA') in the process. Perhaps if Arbcom was more willing to desysop admins who annoy the community, that would solve the problem.
Cynical
Steve Bennett wrote:
Maybe we should adopt an "easy come, easy go" policy. Make it much easier for users to get admin rights, but make it much easier for them to be desysopped too (perhaps by simple request by 3 other admins?). Then, rather than attempting to prejudge admins, we could actually road-test them. Hell, give them a trial period of 2 weeks, *then* vote on them.