On 4/17/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry, your pithy one-liners were coming across as you saying that (more admins) would be a bad idea. Please write more stuff for clarity.
RFA will not increase it's promotion rate whatever you do unless we reach the point of very near fall over due to lack of admins. People have been trying for 2 years and it hasn't worked yet.
So we look at maximising our current admin resources. Most of our current processes are about efficient as they can be without introducing a large number of admin bots.
The hyper-actives are already likely doing all they can.
I would rather not be trying to push fairly active admins into being hyper-actives
Thus we are left with two options:
Bots Get more admin work out of the near inactive as admins admins.
The first has been historically rejected by the community whenever anyone has asked.
The second has not really been tried. Getting those who are not using their admin powers at this time to temporarily step down would have the added benefit of producing an identifiable group of respectable non admins hopefully lowing the significance of adminship in people's minds.