Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20170209110855/@comment-10473115-20170210124750

I think that it would have been better to start dedicated forum thread for every nomination because this one's gotten quite cluttered. Overall, I agree with what has been a rough consensus in this thread about candidates. I also think that forbidding some contributors to give their opinions about so important matter is against our policies: "Although staff are often seen discussing matters of format or the general direction of the site, everyone is valued equally and should be counted as such. Everyone's opinion matters."

New semi-active section on staff page is a good idea because it helps users to find help if needed. I don't think we need any hard threshold which admins are active or not. If someone is inactive, name should be moved to that section and if that admin feels otherwise or comes back from hiatus, page could be edited again. I don't see any edit warring possibilities in that.

I don't think there should be any "cap limit" to staff positions. We need at least enough that things don't get stalled because of lacking user rights. But I also feel that more users to whom we can trust these rights, better the site will work. That brings us also to a question about removing admin rights. I feel that this thread has reaching a consensus about this and although I don’t want to oppose that, I can’t see it helping our community even a little bit. Sleeping admin rights don’t hurt us and unused don’t help us so it isn’t all that important question. Or if I’ve missed a point how this would helpful, please inform me.

I have to disagree with Shabook about responsibilities of staff members. I think that they (or us in this case) have responsibility to act for the benefit of the community which has given their extra rights. But there should be no pressure to be more active than the user feels. I quote our charter again: “There is no quota to fill and no race to win. We value quality over quantity. Some valued members rarely contribute to the database, if at all.” It should apply to staff as well as other users.

When considering giving these extra rights to some user, at the end we should only ask does it help the community. It’s not about deserving, exemplary editing, kissing rear ends, seniority, knowledge, avoiding or finding disagreements. Of course some of those things can determine is promoting helpful.