Thank you for the node, it's always interesting to get some sort of peek behind the curtains.

As to the general premise...how are non-editors to respond in any sort of informed manner? (other than, perhaps, non-US monks who have run into an availability wall of some sort).

As to the larger premise, only Editors can tell us what their burden is like, whether it's scant or all-consuming. If they are swamped then they should recruite on the CB or somesuch.

Matt