User blog comment:Refreshing Demise/A Simple Opinion Not Taken Seriously/@comment-17737991-20140817040933

I personally doubt their promotions will be temporary. It's only until the issue is resolved, except, it's never fully resolved. This wiki is constantly threatened by some butthurt spammer, so it'll never end solidly enough to revoke their admin rights. Even if this guy goes away, another one will come, they always do.

Anyway, I wouldn't say this was exactly done out of fear... It's not scary to have my edits undone, or some guy spam messages across walls, it's just a minor annoyance we can now spend less time having to tolerate since there's more admins. But, given that his "army of 50 hackers" has been post-poned countless times, its existence is doubtful. So I'm pretty sure petty spam is all the "temporary" admins will have to deal with anyway. But, while I doubt there's any army, I wouldn't say the promotions were a waste of time.

Take earlier today for example, spammer be undoing edits and making threats, and there were no admins around. It went unresolved for hours. I was about to ask an admin on a separate website to come here to help when it was finally taken care of. Point being, there aren't enough active admins at the moment. Even adamant and loyal ones simply can't be on 24/7.

I think the idea of a temporary promotion is a good one, and I had actually thought of a similar idea after this morning (though I didn't expect something like that to happen!). I still hold the concern though that this temporary promotion will be delayed far beyond whatever the initial time estimate is, since as I said, SOG is almost never not being attacked to some degree. We can never know when Griph is gone for good. Everytime a new threat comes up, we'll be uncertain of who it is with their abundance of alt accounts. Hell, for all we know, Griph could even be Bomb, the last spamtastic low life. I don't see any possible solid determining point to demote them, because the threats never end. And if their demotion should be indefinitely postponed, they'd have essenitially been promoted simply for being at the right place at the right time.