[WikiEN-l] Admin burnout

[Guettarda]

On 2/9/07, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/8/07, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > We apparently just lost Alkivar (hopefully just on a stress relief
> > break, but he says he's out of here indefinitely).
> >
> > We're doing terribly at keeping identified, overstressed admins from
> > ending up going over the edge.  What are we doing wrong, or what do we
> > need to learn to do right?
>
>
> Why assume we're doing anything wrong? Some degree of churn is, I think,
> healthy.


Turnover isn't a bad thing.  People go from active, to inactive and back to
active all the time.  But burnout is a problem when it comes from conflict
and causes a person to leave feeling upset and ill-served by the community.