Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-5084796-20150216183232/@comment-25995065-20150216202512

A5637 wrote: Bourgeoisie wrote: If a user proves themselves capable of performing admin responsibilities and is voted on by the community, what makes them no longer capable after a set amount of time? I oppose any implementation of term in which adminship (or any user right) is held. Adminship should only be taken from a user if they prove themselves incapable of the responsibility, if they go inactive for an extended, unspecified amount of time, or if they choose to revoke their own user rights. Why does any elected politician have to be re-elected after a certain period of time? To keep them fresh, and connected to the people they represent in order to be reelected again. As I've noted, I'm not saying this has necessarily occured here, and if admins continue to do well they should have no problem with being re-elected. User rights aren't an elected/political position though. They're an extra set of tools for users who volunteer and are voted upon by the community to be responsible for performing actions with those tools. There's no need to keep it "fresh" nor should it be assumed that there should only be x number of admins at a time. If more users are capable of performing administrator responsibilities and are voted to become sysops by the community, there's no reason they shouldn't get that. Likewise there's no reason to remove the rights from users periodically just you don't want "too many" administrators. WP:ANOT and NOBIGDEAL are relevant here.