In my opinion, if amateur checkers need to post in the thread that often, shouldn't they be on the GP team already? Our main problem is sorting out the list of who is active (actively checking, at least), and who needs to be moved to inactive. Also, it would help if we had active leaders (or at least one or two who can cover for the absent ones for the time being) who could approve the 'amateur' checkers, I can think of at least two people who would fit in to the GP team perfectly, and we could definitely use the extra help, just the ability to stamp your own check goes a long way, and if these checkers are on the team, we have even more people who can stamp other checks. It's a case of the leaders being inactive, I have PM'd one of the checkers I thought was helpful, but they said they haven't received any response from moderators. Yes, I know this isn't completely 'on topic' for what the thread is, so if you have any comments, VM/PM me just to avoid clutter and possible warnings :)