Personally I think the 1k hour requirement is there to serve as a filter, not to see how good a person might be for a position. There's a lot of players who want to be admin and someone with 1k hours should have a pretty good basic understanding on the game. Thus having it filters out a lot of applicant's that would be applying purely for the sake of their own self interests as well as applicant's that don't know the ins and outs of the game