Forum:Outlawing "Too many Admins" responses in RfA's

I have been seeing this issue coming up a lot, and I thought it warranted a discussion.

In a lot of recent Requests for Adminship, several of the opposed votes have given the reason "We have too many admins", "We have just the right amount", or "So-and-so was recently made admin." A recent discussion on the successful rfa for Shotrocket6 was about the issue of this topic.

The usual argument for their being too many admins is simply that, we have too many admins. At the current time, I believe the count of fully active admins is 9, which too some people is seen as an abundance. The argument against this is that you can never have too many admins, as the more you have, the more protection you have.

My reason for posting this however is a bit different. On MLGisNot4Me's recent rfa, the point was brought up that an rfa is not about whether or not there are too many admins, or another user was recently made an admin. An rfa is used to determine whether or not a user can be trusted with admin tools and whether or not they are suitable for adminship.

Do to the above reason, it would seem that saying that "I oppose because we have too many admins/so-and-so was made admin recently" would be against the point of the rfa. It has nothing to do with the user or their merits, but other users. Therefore, I believe it may be worth it to disallow using arguments such as that in the "Oppose" section of an rfa.

Tell me what you think below please. 01:20, November 30, 2011 (UTC)