Due to the danger inherent in performing a circumcision, a person will only engage in this act if he is an expert. The Baal Hatanya, the first rebbe of Chabad, told his daughter. It is better to eat in order to daven, then to daven in order to eat. Aside from the obvious problem of defining 'sizeable', there is a major problem here. This seems to me to be extremely dangerous.
History is full of mistakes made by 'a sizeable number of people' in choosing leaders.
If anything, it is after a rav is recognized to be a gadol, using any of the other methods discussed in previous issues, that sizeable numbers of people follow him. From the start of Adar, we multiply Purim Torah. Your friendly Purim edition editor, here. With only a couple weeks to go till Purim, I'd like to remind the mail.jewish readership that the Purim edition will only be as funny as the submissions we get. And so far the quality is good but the quantity is not.