How many Elves would be too many?

[Jen Reese]

In talking about the surge of new members expected after the POA 
movie, and then when the next book is released, several people 
mentioned adding Elves to handle the inreased volume. I'm just 
wondering, from an Elf perspective--can it reach a point where there 
are too many Elves to make decisions by consensus? That's my 
understanding of the process now, group decision-making by 
consensus, which seems like a great way to do things.

>From Abigail's post, she mentioned 7000 members prior to OOTP and 
now we have 11,000+, so 4000 new members. If there are 2000-4000 new 
members joining after POA, then again with the next book (assuming 
it's released before the next movie!), that could be a group in the 
range of 15-20,000 people. How many elves (estimate) would be needed 
for a group that size? Or does it depend more on the number of posts 
per day rather than actual group size? Just curious.

Jen, thinking this Feedback list is a really good idea!