Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20151012235434/@comment-61022-20190116012709

On the matter of Hussar: Absolutely. From what I can see they have the coding know-how that is much needed around here so yes. That is a resource that is limited and in high demand here so bumping them up to content mod is a good idea.

As for the admin positioning:

I'm guessing this is in response to what to whatever is going on with ADour? I just now became aware seeing that Annabelle is posting on his behalf. What's up with that, I haven't been paying much attention to the conversations happening between admins.

While I agree that both SunGod and Nurdboy have made great contributions to the site and are valued members of this community, I think that we need to take a look at the current pool of admins and see what's going on with other people. To be clear, this is less an issue of if SunGod and NurdBoy qualify. I am confident they do. What I am saying is that we should make sure those who are currently in the admin roster still want the duty/if they are willing to take a more active role first. Mostly out of respect to others holding the position. I have other reasons listed below.

Just looking into it here's who we've got and the last time they've contributed something to the site:

Active Admins:
 * JohnnyBravo44 - July 2018.
 * Many Angled-One - December 14, 2018

Semi-Active:
 * Spencerz: October 10, 2018
 * EdKaufman: January 10, 2019
 * Eetmi: January 16, 2018
 * GrnMarvl14: December 13, 2015
 * Kokushishin: July 19, 2018
 * Maxdillon: November 18, 2018
 * MrBlonde267: August 29, 2018
 * Robert Alvarez: January 10, 2016

Having too many admins creates a "too many cooks" situation IMHO and looking at the current roster we have 8 active admins and 7 semi active. That's 15 users with admin access. That's twice as many than most comparable wikis and there are all sorts of issues that raises for me:


 * Courtesy. Making sure we don't unintentionally snub someone who already holds a position who may want to take a more active role but hasn't spoken up yet.


 * More Inclusive Voting. Re-establish a core of individuals so we have a clear number of votes when it comes to decision making. We need more clarity on who is around and who actually wants to participate in votes.


 * Graceful Exits. Giving individuals one last opportunity to step down (if that is their wish) to make room for fresh blood. Again, it's to not snub anyone.


 * Clean house. Like I said, we have double the amount of people with admin status than most of wikis. I feel that's excessive since not many are overly active.


 * Security reasons. As tight a ship as Fandom runs things on the security side of things, I can't help but think that those inactive admin accounts are security risks waiting to happen. We have enough problems with vandals, the last thing I'd want is for a vandal that is able to hack into one of those inactive accounts. That leaves us open to a lot of potential damage.