  == RFA participation ==  I appreciate your concerns, but for those of us who don't participate in admin culture as admins, this is the only way to find out such information.  A lot of us really want to know where admins stand on Wikipedic issues that concern us. With issues that are clearly important to the class of users who generally participate in RFAs (when to block, when to protect, when and how to close an XfD), the answers tend to come out in discussion. On issues that are completely unimportant to the class of users who generally participate in RFAs (issues pertaining to newbies, unestablished accounts, IPs, and the rights and representation of non-admin users), questions have to be asked outright to get any sort of discussion or answers at all. That's how I feel.   