Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20151012235434/@comment-1713281-20190204052450

Jamie, I think that we've more or less added a new step into the old system of active/inactive since you've been away. We have our core group of 'active' admins, and then we have a group of 'semi-active' admins, who still have powers, but are not around on a consistent basis. They retain their admin access, but they aren't expected to be points of contact for the userbase, or policy drivers. Removed from that, we have the 'alumni' section for admins that have come and gone.

To the other points: While I don't know that rogue hackers are an issue we really have to be concerned about, removing access isn't a recent change either. We've actually deactivated every retired admin up until this point, even including a bot or two. I think it's just a good bit of housekeeping. There's nothing that says we won't re-enable admin for an 'alumni' should they return (bar a few notable examples), but if you're to the point that you haven't edited in 18 months or so, then it's a pretty safe bet you've left for good.

For example, Robert hasn't edited in 3 years, and even out to 5 years, he's made 4 whole edits. Brad hasn't edited in more than 3 years as well, and removing forum and message wall edits, he hasn't made a content edit since 2014. Neither of those sounds even close to "semi-active", so it doesn't seem to make sense that they still have admin access if we're retiring them.