Board Thread:Special Admin Messages/@comment-32555140-20181228134002/@comment-25428589-20181228223722

Hi there, I'm not a regular contributor to this wiki (I'm a lot more involved in the original Creepypasta Wiki), but I do think you guys should consider whether you need more admins/'crats right now.

According to the list of administrators, you've already got 22 admins and 12 (!) bureaucrats. For a wiki of this size and activity level, that already seems like way too many. Having this many admins, especially inactive ones, can be a really bad thing. I don't know if you guys saw what happened at Geoshea's Creepypasta Wiki or, more recently, the Roblox Creepypasta Wiki. In both cases, having too many users with rights (especially inactive b'crats) caused major issues with mass deletions/large-scale conflict. Inactive admin accounts are incredibly appealing targets for hackers, or just for people who "grow out" of wanting to contribute here and decide to cause some damage.

Obviously I don't have any sway here, but I'd seriously advise that you guys clean out any inactive 'crats before you start promoting new ones. You can't take back b'crat rights without a community vote, it's a serious decision to promote someone to that level. I know it can be awkward to recommend the demotion of someone you're friendly with, but when you've got this much dead weight on your team, something needs to change. Really, only one or two 'crats are actually needed for a community of this size to run smoothly. At Creepypasta Wiki, a significantly larger wiki with more rules to enforce, we make do with just one b'crat, and 6 admins.