Thread:Sxerks/@comment-24142271-20171027175254/@comment-265082-20171029213052

This reminded me of a thread from quite a while back when a user asked Dan for admin rights, take a quick read.

User rights are not rewards they are a responsibility. Just want to make sure everyone reading this understands that.

Let's go over what a sysop's responsibilities are and how they relate to this wiki:
 * Protection (see log): as you can see this is hardly an issue.
 * Banning (see log): on average a handful a month, easily taken care of.
 * Deletion (see log): Recently just duplicate/unused images, again not insurmountable for one person.

Now, items like the spam page you mentioned, I would prefer that those are blanked, marked for deletion, and the VSTF contacted. These are typically cross-wiki spammers and should be reported so that it cleans other wikis and any blacklisting/ip banning can be updated site-wide.

As noted, the forum and chat aren't really used much, so adding more mods then we already have would be pointless at this time. I'm not really sure why they aren't used more considering this is a hub, if the activity picks up, I will add more moderators.

As another note, when I see the need for or someone asks for user rights, I do what amounts to a background check on their edits and interactions on other wikis (not just the ones they list, but any I can find), and this is a heavy influence on my decisions.

Munchvtec, I gave my answer the first time, the continual pestering isn't really helping. I can't see giving you the ability to sysop rights and the ability to delete, when have incorrectly marked items for deletion.

The last extra sysops we had here was about 2-3 years ago, and there really hasn't been a huge difference in issues. At this time I can offer that right to Besty17, assuming he accepts the responsibility.