i sampled special listadmins admins and jun jun apr prior feb jun jun dec jan jun sep jun prior jun jun may jun jun jun jun jun jun apr prior mar may prior may active inactive or slightly active active if this is roughly accurate then the number of active admins is probably around or less i don't know how many total editors were active in the last 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 jun utc also thanks for your support for my adminship maybe we should limit the number of admins to cheers jun utc