User blog comment:Fatal Disease/We Are Understaffed/@comment-1196539-20140910162121/@comment-1196539-20140911144909

I hardly ever do anything on CPW. I don't even have Rollback there.

Understand that there's no real deadline, no catastrophe to avoid if the articles that merit deleted aren't deleted within a certain threshold. Which isn't to say we shouldn't be doing it; when working on a category, I read through every article and address/delete those that fail to meet QS. Even then, though, the page count on this wiki doesn't change much. We don't get that many new articles posted daily. If we get 2 new pages added every day (which is itself a stretch), then that means that, among our ~10 RCaDC/admins/crats, at MOST there's enough content for each one to read over one article every 5 days. Make it one article every four days, and we're already making progress on the backlog.

Now consider that most of us, when we edit, do several pages at a time. Often at least 3 to 5 per session. That alone is mathematically enough to satisfy the wiki for 15 to 25 days. Staff shouldn't do nothing at all for weeks on end, but that's not happening, and the site is in a perfectly stable state right now. Rules get changed and topics addressed when they need to be; usually this is not the case. We don't need to go out of our way to constantly find new policies to enforce or abandon. Most changes come about when a user requests them, as you do. And that's fine. That's how the system works. It's a problem if the admins aren't there to respond to the user and follow through with their request, but that hasn't been happening.

You've been very helpful on the wiki, Fatal, and for even longer than I, but please, for your own sake, just relax. It's not falling apart. If you feel like you've been doing everything, then stop. See what happens. See that the wiki will still be here, and it will still be thriving. Pages will still get read and deleted, users will still communicate changes of policy to staff. Things will still get done, and all will be well with the world.