Are slayers weaker in numbers?

I think it's something to consider. There was never supposed to be more than one Slayer at a time, using the power and spreading it through 1500 girls, I just don't think that it can be the same kind of power that Buffy and those who came before her inherited. I don't even think that Faith and Kendra had that same level of power as Buffy.

The power of the Slayer came from one demon and was infused into one girl. I can't imagine that that same amount of power can be shared between a thousand girls and still have the same level of potency. I don't think it makes them any less Slayers, but I do think that it could explain why Buffy - and Faith, to an extent - still feels like she can't walk away from the fight - because the power of the Slayer has more of a hold over her than the other girls.
 
I don't get the idea vampires are inclined to help each other for anything other than mutual benefit after the Master and his "family" are broken up. They do have hierarchical groups in some cases with extreme behaviour such as one vampire calling out Buffy at the cost of burning up herself and of course there is Sunday and her minions and Harmony and her minions. And of course, we see the Master's core group, the fanged four, Darla, Angel, Drusilla and Spike who do not always get the synergy you expect to get from a group.

Slayer power is like DNA with all cells copying the same information so that they are all as capable as the era when there was only one slayer. We see no reduction in capability when Faith and Buffy either go up against each other or work together. Slayers can also have hierarchies that enable more things to get done. The slayers and their support people can also get antagonistic as in "The Yoko Factor" where Spike effortlessly drives a wedge between the scoobies, but this is not a reduction of slayer strength, just an organizational failure.
 
Something to consider here is that the current army of Slayers were activated by Willow's spell, not Called in the regular way. Possibly, this would be somewhat comparable to picking a fruit before it matures and ripens naturally as opposed to the "Vine/tree ripened" variety. I'm not saying that a Slayer is like a Macintosh apple, necessarily, but if being a Potential is in fact genetic, and Calling somehow activates the Slayer properties, Willow's spell might not have completely fulfilled the process, resulting in "pseudo-Slayers," demon fighters who are almost, but not quite, the real thing.

Or, to borrow Buffy's metaphor, they were taken out of the oven before their cookies were fully baked.
 
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