I sampled Special Listadmins Admins 200 209 and 300 309 200 Jun 21 2005 Jun 20 2005 Apr 30 2005 prior Feb 17 Jun 21 2005 Jun 21 2005 Dec 10 2004 Jan 23 2005 Jun 20 2005 Sep 21 2004 Jun 15 2005 prior Jun 9 300 Jun 20 2005 May 19 2005 Jun 17 2005 Jun 21 2005 Jun 19 2005 Jun 20 2005 Jun 20 2005 Jun 21 2005 Apr 25 2005 prior Mar 8 May 31 2005 prior May 11 12 active 8 inactive or slightly active 60 active If this is roughly accurate then the number of active admins is probably around 300 or less I don t know how many total editors were active in the last 30 days While some admins involve themselves in setting policies which anyone may participate in others seem to confine themselves to truly janitorial work For that reason I m not sure if bureaucracy is the best way to describe the corps of admins or the dangers threatened by their expansion The more plausible fear I think is that too many admins will result in a police state with more sped up deletes heavy handed blocks and POV enforcement I am certainly opposed to any movement in the direction of stifling unpopular POVs I m not sure that the number of admins is the major factor though Another view which I don t endorse either is that having more admins broadens involvement and reduces the relative power of any one admin I think that the most important issues are probably the rules and procedures official and unofficial that admins follow and or enforce on others Those powers should stay limited 05 26 Jun 21 2005 UTC Also Thanks for your support for my adminship Maybe we should limit the number of admins to 500 Cheers 05 26 Jun 21 2005 UTC