ikiroid wrote:
Perhaps it's the fact that we only really promote
to adminship the
workaholics or veterans who slipped through the cracks and we forgot to
nominate, so we end up with a backlog of everything. There is a lot of
pressure on admins and admin candidates to act perfectly, all of the time.
I confess that when somebody offered to nominate me for adminship, I
declined. It was partly that I didn't feel quite up to the
have-you-done-everything-a-lot filter in RfA voting, and partly because
it looked like a major time commitment, with a lot of hair-pulling involved.
I don't know if it's correct, but my impression was that ten hours a
week was about a minimum to do it right. I felt like staying an editor
let me keep the ability to put in time as schedule and stress level allow.
Now that I think about it, though, maybe I got that impression from
watching the busy ones burn out.
William