Board Thread:Policies/@comment-867021-20121204175146/@comment-1713281-20121207233759

Nathan, I think you missed Eetmi. I remember reading his post on the external forum that he "quit" as an admin.

So guidelines. Some generic ones i can think of

From User to Admin
Everyone feel free to help expand this, I'm sure it can be expanded.
 * Users should have a certain number of edits. No idea what limit, but of current admins, everyone has over 10,000 except for myself and Robert (I have 6,589, Robert has 6,695)
 * Users should also have contributed consistently for a set amount of time. Again, I'm bottom of the totem pole of current admins, with 2 years as of September.
 * Perhaps previous blocks should be considered case-by-case?

Active to Inactive Admin/Inactive to Deactivated

 * Perhaps we should formalize this process. If an active admin doesn't make a contribution for 6 months, they're moved from "Active" to "Inactive".
 * Once you've become Inactive, you have an additional 6 months to become active again (so 1 year in total) before your account is stripped of admin rights, essentially making you deactivated.
 * If you've been deactivated, perhaps you should have to go thru the process again? Maybe we can see if Wikipedia has a policy for this kind of sitution that we can mirror
 * Of course, all of this can be bypassed if something extreme happens that warrents deactivation.
 * Those time frames can change, they're kind of place holders.