User:Jorgenev/"RFA was better before"

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Forceful assertions that RFA is 'broken' have always been part of the RFA scene here on Wikipedia, as well as lamentations for the days of yore when RFA was better in some way: more civil, easier, more active, etc. This page seeks to document that by providing a quote from every month since RFA began of users talking about how RFA was better in some way before.

The point of this page is not to argue that RFA does not have problems, and of course RFA has always been getting harder, but instead that (1) we tend to over romanticize the past (2) even when candidates were being promoted at levels that we now think would think today are ridiculously too low to promote at people were complaining that RFA was too hard and (3) its likely that RFA will continue to get harder and that the WT:RFAers of the future will talk about how things worked just fine now.

It is only somewhat finished, help completing it would be welcome.