Board Thread:User Rights Request/@comment-14310002-20140808061541/@comment-961279-20140809152311

AwesomeOrange89, I find it very interesting that you didn't want me to keep my bureaucrat and admin rights because I had not made any edits in two months, and less than a week later, you're saying you want to see lots of people on this wiki with special rights. If your requirement for having special rights is that they cannot be inactive even for a short period of time, you need to say that in the Requirements page, say at what point they will no longer be considered active, and say at what point their rights will be removed.

For example: "In order to keep administrator rights, users need to make at least one edit every week. If they have been inactive after a month, they will be reminded that they need to be come back to the wiki and participate again. If they have been inactive for two months, their admin rights will be removed."

That way, people will know that you're going to clean house on special rights on a regular basis and they know up front how active they have to be on this wiki to keep their rights. If they know ahead of time that they're going to be gone for a longer period of time, they will need to notify you so that you will not remove their rights in their absence.

As I said in the chat room, it's more customary for a wiki to look at removing rights when people have been inactive for a longer period of time. If they're inactive for a couple of months, they could be just taking a break due to other activities going on at that time. But if it's been a year, then they probably aren't going to return.

I'm going to repeat another thing I said in the chat room: Do not be so dilligent in making sure that people stay active that you drive them away. After reading this announcement, I'm not sure I want to be a part of this wiki any more and I feel a bit insulted that you pressured me into giving up my bureaucrat and admin rights because you said there were "too many bureaucrats". That's a contradiction of "I would personally love to see a lot of people getting jobs".