Talk:Rule Change Proposal and Site Suggestions/@comment-7706473-20140819052939/@comment-17737991-20140819142037

And my browser crashed and deleted the giant reply I was typing ;-;

* stifles explosion*

Yea... getting the official channel to promote us is near impossible. We can ineffectively nag them again and that's about it .-. I adeed the suggestion to get a second reader, especially for CPotM, since Mutahar just won't do it. For advertising, I suppose Social Media should be our focus since Cosmic would probably be more help than Mutahar.

About demoting, the only active admins (excluding the temporary ones who are supposed to be temporary) right now are:

Areis

Cosmic

Storm

Marcus

So removing admin status from any of those people might not be the best idea right now .-. There's only four of them and the suggested cut would leave us with 6-8 active admins :\ But of course, if you want to be depromoted you have a right to, though I think with just 4 admins, we need all the help we can possibly get ^^' Some admins like Flaky and Dusty are likely to return, but at the moment... not many are here .-.

Also, on the Rules of the Road page, the 11 admins listed there (excluding Muta as he's exempt from this potential overhaul) are about the only ones who've done anything in the last year. Should we decomission all the other admins for being inactive, behind their backs... it seems pretty cruel to me :\

Perhaps we could have 6-8 active admins, and the inactive ones will be demoted, but keep an admin "standby" status. This is only if the inactive user shows no signs of returning, so those who intend to return after a hiatus (be it work, technological problems, etc.) can keep their status if they make it clear they will return.

For the inactive ones who are unlikely to come back, in the even that they do then if they are consistently active again for at least two months, they will be the top pick for a re-promotion if a new admin is needed. Returning for at least two months is crucial though, otherwise we'd just re-promote dead users and never give new ones a chance. And I don't mean if they come back for two months then leave again, if they become inactive after two months, and a new admin is needed, they will not be considered a candidate. They must be active at the time of status promotion as well, This of course only applies to previous admins who were demoted for something like inactivity, and not to those who were demoted for abusing the wiki (does this site even have previous admins like that?).

On the topic of demotion, Babylon has volunteered to have his admin rights revoked as he does not intend to use the wiki much anymore. That's a shame but if that's what he wants... .-.