Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24841964-20150704051540/@comment-24841964-20150710045235

Kefke Wren wrote: Link is a Master wrote: FlakyPorcupine wrote: I'll act if we can agree on something. Been busy mostly with work and writing (both for the wiki and outside of it). Well. What can we compromise on? As I've said, I do think that having more active staff is a good thing.

I'd also be willing to say that having some way to clearly identify active staff would be good. Not too up on what bots can do, but could we, say, have a bot that "demotes" staff members to a Retired Admin rank, and possibly adds their name to a list, after a set period of inactivity, with Retired Admins having the authority to promote themselves out of retirement? From there, we could get the actual numbers on who's around to see how many new admins are really needed, and it would be easier to argue for why they need to be, without stepping on any toes/burning any bridges. (And if not a bot, doing this manually would be my next choice as an option.) I haven't worked with bots. And it sounds like it needs to be a Bureaucrat bot to do all those things. As for a Retired rank, I dunno what to do about that. But we have Wikia. You can ask.