Thread:FlakyPorcupine/@comment-5619531-20140511173851/@comment-7706473-20140512094920

I'm with all of you in expressing some reservations, and have to go pretty solidly with the the camp of being slightly - no, very - paranoid of anyone asking for status. Fatal - that's not a comment against you in the slightest, but let me express my reservations:

- Wikia is an easy-to-create format. Though it looks like you aren't the person to create a wikia and grant yourself administrator, I'm mistrustful by nature in this day and age when it is *so easy* to do just that.

- Like has been mentioned, we have quite a few administrators and simply power-users who vanish regularly; I was one myself until just regularly, specifically the second example Ethan listed. I don't think you seem likely to vanish, but it seems a dangerous precedent to grant such power - and respsonbility, and obligation - to someone based on their interactiveness with other communities, elsewhere.

- Finally, and most related, we've just come off a hotbed of recent spammer and vandal attacks, and in my familiarity the unfortunate nature of such attacks is that they are rarely 'hacking', but rather people finding social ways to use or integrate themselves into a position where they can cause havoc. This makes me more paranoid then normal, and it would be against anyone in such a position and time.

Now that's being said, your work so far seems to be quite good, and you're asking for permissions for the right reasons, so let me tell you what I'd recommend from your newfound Rollback position; stick around, keep doing good work, be active and all that jazz; and before you know it, I feel you'd end up being a far better candidate for administratorship than I.

And though I hate myself for bringing this into a serious discussion, so long as you don't Ogrestep yourself, I'm sure you'll find your ambitions granted sooner then later.