Board Thread:Internal management/@comment-27790153-20160619085116/@comment-26988423-20160625015958

Pinkgirl234 wrote:

Protanly said:

I feel that the problem with this wiki isn't the fact that we have people who are power hungry, but that we have an oversaturation of staff that either don't do their job, or who simply aren't needed. You are quite true about that. In fact, I know a few staff members who are not doing their jobs (but I won't be specifying names for the sake of avoiding big arguments but you probably know who they could be). One common problem is that after a user gets promoted, they soon start being inactive afterwards or are not doing their duties at all. Basically, it seems that some users would request to be promoted for the mere sake of receiving beautiful username colors and to gain some glory when in fact all the glory will be rendered useless when they won't show that they can do their jobs well. I'm doing my best...

Elemec wrote:

We gotta look at the user, if he vandalizes or not I think that's more of "trying to destroy the wiki" than power hungriness...

Anyways, now I'll actually talk about the topic instead of the replies.

The requirement for Rollback is 100, for example. However, any user who has studied up should know the wiki enough to know that the user in question will have to have at least almost 200 mainspace to avoid opposes because of "power hungriness".

That's basically equivalent to telling people that "hey, although the listed requirement is this, get an extra 50-100 mainspace edits or else you're power hungry!"

...I don't follow this logic.

Power hungriness is a trait. Requirements are requirements, and they should NOT be used to judge other things unrelated. For instance, mainspace editcount is to check mainspace activity. Heck, our methods of "identifying power hungriness" are so consistent that we might as well add to the rules page that "if you're not satisfyingly above the requirements you're power hungry."