I can't help but remember the comments made towards the NTSE mods as to them not being able to cover enough articles in a timely manner, and a similar issue suddenly got shelved on me, but not on a submission-to-submission basis, but a post-to-post basis.
So basically, you have the articles being submitted, and there's an additional submission process for everyone that wants to contribute too. Which means I have to do the homework of looking at the posts in moderation, jump in the threads to actually see what's going on and figure out if it's fine or not (if it's not obvious enough at first glance) and then decide to approve or not.
Which means there's wait-times. Hey, I can procrastinate just as much as anyone else. And then, if people keenly care about giving contribution but still don't see their post as approved, they'll bump me. "Hey Fred, do you have some time to look at my post and approve it?" Anyone posting will believe they have a good reason to do so and they might think themselves justified... but all of that is going to rest on my opinion! I'm going to have to make hard calls, and say NO to some people (for whatever reason: too blunt, I think it's rude, you're just agitating, etc...). those people won't be happy, will have friends whom will sympathize, and this will balloon up.
I'm now literally the speech police for the NTSE... and what do people usually do with speech police?
They hate it, and accuse it of all sorts of things. Staff is biased. Staff can't be impartial. Current staffers are bad, we need new ones. Etc...
I'm getting Déja Vu now. >_>;
It'd be a good plan, if I was somehow not a fellow roleplayer and that I pursued this professionally. There are community managers in official videogame forums that have careers built around that sort of work. But Wes and I don't have that kind of time, experience and professionalism working for us.
To me, it seems like a formula for disaster. Just another kind. Raz is correct; this is a placebo, not an actual solution.