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