I'm glad you two are still around. I haven't seen either of you in a while!

I was worried the pair of you had fallen into a pit of radioactive sharks or something. Of course I suppose that could still be true...

Don't feel rushed, though. We all have our hiatus-times - whether through being away from computers, being busy, or simply not having the energy to participate. I'll probably slow down myself after tonight (last night shift! Hopefully ever!), so I can totally understand.

(You get two paragraphs and a parenthesis because there are two of you. And a parenthesis. Or something)

hS

I feel sort of bad that you're probably the PG I know the least (it helps that I've met several of the others in person, I suppose); it would be awesome to see you around the Board more. And the Chat, of course, but I don't go there, so it wouldn't help me. :P

hS

This has come up before - usually right when the balance between People Waiting For Permission and People Tired of Answering All The Requests hits critical mass (though fortunately, not this time, I think). It's not a bad idea to call roll and figure out where we are before we reach Torch-and-Pitchfork status, and props to hS for doing so.

The main two reasons I am a fan of more PGs rather than fewer are fairly simple. First, selfishly, less stress on the PGs- shared burdens are halved and so on, and it just means less of a workload per person in general. Second, on an entirely different front, diffusion of power. Yes, I'm paranoid. But the more different, trustworthy people we have filling the position, the less likely we are to ever wind up with a monolith.

--VM, who tried to post this three times from various devices last night. Bah, and humbug.

The problem is, a fair number of us aren't all that active (including, most of the time, me), and there is, among those laughingly called 'humanity', a common tendency to say 'Oh, someone else will deal with it'. If (say) Dann and Cassie are busy that week, I decide to let someone else take a Request, and VM and Araeph decide it's too close to call... but that same list could happen if we had twenty.

Personally I think we should be able to run with five (or more if more show up!); the test of that will be whether we respond to Permission posts effectively. Mostly, though, I was just feeling twitchy.

hS

My internet time has been going up and down like a yoyo, so I know how you feel. Glad to hear things will be settling down, though.

hS

I did scan the front page for your name, but it's, uh, quarter to four in the morning, so if you're there I missed you. It's great that you're still around, though.

hS

How are you finding the 'job', by the way? Making absolutely no change to anything?

hS

Except you. I was reasonably confident you were still here.

(Seriously, the Vasty Silence is making me nervous. You're about this |----| close to having me clinging to your shoes to make sure you stick around)

hS is quite tired actually and apologises for not making that much sense

We tend to appoint two at a time, and they're usually drawn from the 'more senior' members of the Community - but that's because they're the people whose writing ability and judgement everyone respects, not because it's a right. Our oldest member of all - my wife - isn't a PG, and doesn't want to be.

Hopefully, however, the numbers aren't critical, and everyone's just being quiet/I didn't see them.

hS