Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-25396609-20171007215936

This is a motion for the removal of Sgt D Grif’s bureaucrat position; specifically moving him down one step, into the position of Admin.

As many of you may have noticed Sgt D Grif, Grif for short, has been largely inactive on the wiki. Frequency of edits, participation in the forum, and general presence among the community has been increasingly rare over the past few years.

It is difficult to cite examples of inactivity, however I will note that, by viewing his editing history it can be easily determined his contributions are generally several days to a week apart, compared to most other staff who are active for at least a short time every day.

I will not disclose details, however by speaking with Grif directly I have determined that due to real life circumstances related to his work, his time and ability to contribute to the wiki is heavily limited.

He has specifically stated he is not interested in the forums, which can be seen in that his last forum post was on the 17th of July, and prior to that on The 20th of June Nearly a full month gap; both of which were exclusively to weigh-in on decisions regarding the organization of the wiki; one for the decision to create an official Discord server, and the other to vote on user rights removal.

It is my personal opinion that a Bureaucrat should be active to at least some degree on the wiki as a whole, not just sporadic edits and votes. A majority if his edits are typically either incredibly generic, or doing something normally handled by another admin or staff member who was unable to do it at the time; though this is also often picked up by other members of staff. Examples include uploading screenshots, moving pages, and issuing warnings/bans.

Voting will take place in this thread. Please preface your inputs on the above motion with either Support (support the removal of rights) or Oppose (oppose the removal of rights). Please also justify your vote with a brief reasoning. Please note that votes entirely without valid reasoning (based on personal friendship, etc.) may not be taken into account.

Please note that the same threshold for eligibility for nominations applies here. To be eligible, a user must have an e-mail confirmed account with no bans or blocks within 4 weeks of the nomination and have been actively editing/posting on the wiki for 2 weeks and have a minimum of 25 edits. 