Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-24573226-20170620150929/@comment-25936766-20170620173250

Argorrath hasn't been active since 2015. Darkcloud hasn't shown up for a year, at least in main. So, yeah, remove their rights, their titles are just sitting on empty chairs.

As for DA, he's too problematic in this regard. On one hand, he has a point, regarding what a Rollback is like in practice: They can roll back edits, making it easier to deal with vandalism. But besides that, they are practically no different from a normal user.

Hazel told DA that at least here in this wiki, "Rollbacks are considered a part of the staff, who moderate articles, intervene in edit wars, are empowered to issue warnings, and communicate with other staff on any and all issues regarding the wiki with a vote in decision making."

But it doesn't need any deep thinking to see that a normal user can do all those things without difference. Even issue warnings, just indirectly (no "I will ban you", instead "you can get banned for that"). All a Rollback can do is do the first 2 things more effectively, have a vote on less-public decisions, and that's the only difference.

So in this regard, DA is right in that it makes little sense to remove his Rollback rights, when all it would do is just make it less efficient for him to deal with "bad edits".

...........On the other hand, his attitude is uncooperative and he apparently loves to make things more complicated than they need to be; When asked "Yes or No" regarding whether he wanted to keep the rights, he only argues the question with 2 long paragraphs without even giving a Yes or a No while at it. Or in his own words, "It is not a No just as it is not a Yes".

He wants the Rollback rights because it's useful, but he also doesn't want the "obligations he never knew he had to fulfill", even though, as part of the staff, even if in a low position, it's his responsibility just like everyone else's.

And, of course, he insults the staff in the process.

So overall, yeah, remove DA's rights. He wants power but doesn't want responsibility, and if he really was unaware that he had to fulfill said responsibility, then that implies willfull ignorance of his position. That's no good for a member of the staff.