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There are ways to reduce stress among the wp:Admin users (group: sysop), and thus avoid admin burnout and meltdown. It is important to pace the overall workload, seek helpers, and take periodic wp:Wikibreaks. Many general users also face burnout issues, when trying to handle too many updates, too many articles, as they realize that working on Wikipedia is perhaps 50x times harder than writing a blog, which has few style-guide rules and no continual reverts of edits. However, admins also face the pressures of backlogs of mop functions, with the growing number of high-profile protected articles and more users realizing that Wikipedia has become the world's soapbox for many new users.