User blog comment:Caysie98/Rule Enforcement/@comment-3404979-20130412152715/@comment-4845243-20130412165814

There is a problem with demoting users, though. It has been the admin's habit that CMs only get demoted for drastic reasons— which don't even include being "hacked" and abusing their powers. I'm not even sure that that anyone has been permenantly demoted in years. There were a few way back in 2011, I believe.

Also, any CMs that are demoted are going to feel really bad, probably. They don't expect to be demoted unless they abuse their powers numerous times. That will cause a rift in the community.

The better choice is to train the CMs. And some of the admins are in fact working on a mod training program.

The problems posed by "too many CMs" will mostly be resolved if the mods all have the same training. The rules allowing for persopnal interpretation were fine when the wiki was small and there were only a handful of ChatMods. But now that there are 30+, and over 100 people on the wiki, it's time to change some of that. And it is being worked on.

So, basically, I don't think demoting CMs would solve the issue.