That is a good point about editors not being available, however, I have an idea to help prevent that. How about people sign up to aprove answers daily? And some kind of XP reward could be awarded for people that sign up to be editors. And to make sure that the editors can be trusted, they have to have over some minimum of XP points (300 is my suggestion). I feel that this could solve your concern.

As far as editors giving out XP, why not, if they are qualified to be editors then I feel that they have some kind of authority to give small amounts of XP.

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