User blog comment:New Dalek Paradigm/Nightwing Shares Thoughts/@comment-4845243-20130316164308

There is a lot of talk about demoting CMs, but I'd like to know something. Now, I agree that we have too many. But over time, as the community gets bigger and more CMs become inactive, it will be balanced out... So my question is, what harm is actually being done by having lots of CMs? There has to be a better motivation than simply the number of them. The admins promoted this number, so if they hadn't wanted so many why promote them?

The fact is, lots of the current CMs are inactive. And of those who come on chat, most are AFK. This simply isn't a drastic enough situation to merit demotions. This wiki is about friendships, so let's not ruin any hastily.

Now, I know that the idea of so many CMs is just distasteful, and lots of us remember the old days when there was no need for many CMs! Back in February of o' twelve when I joined, and all the way through to April or May, I never saw anyone banned! Then, after I come back from an inactive summer, I find so many violations of the rules I was simply shocked. In Feb. I had no desire to be CM at all. Then when I came back, I wanted to do something about the mess, so I changed my mind.

In November, no one complained about "too many" CMs, in fact I saw more complaints about too few, which is part of why Klint, SS and I were made CMs in December. After that there was one wave of CMs in January, and then Chip is Feb of this year. So really, we only have one wave too many... All the complaints started when the relatively inexperienced January wave was made CM... And of those, half are inactive anyways!

I just don't see that this is such a massive problem, that merits drastic measures.