User blog comment:Bourgeoisie/Thoughts on user rights and the like/@comment-4845243-20150228002248/@comment-25995065-20150302003527

The community votes for a user to earn particular rights, therefore the community should be consulted if there are talks of removing those rights. The admins removing a user's rights (which are voted on by the community) without discussing it among the community would be like the administrators removing a policy (that was written and voted on by the community) without discussing it with the community. Most wikis don't have established demotion processes since it's an infrequent thing, so it's understandable if you haven't looked at the need or reason why you'd want that process before. Most wikis I've seen that actually do have a process for it mainly chose between two formats of this:
 * 1) Handling demotions identically to promotions. The community can add a demotion request in any established Requests for User Rights page, and the request for rights removal is voted on like a request for rights.
 * 2) Handling demotions like a forum or an arbitration committee case, where after presenting evidence and reasoning in a forum, the community discusses and votes on the forum.

On wikis with established rights removal systems, there generally need to be present reasons. Contrary to what you'd think, wikis such as Wikipedia don't have a fully established system in one specific location, however they do have many proposals that you could consider browsing. The typical reasons for rights removal are outlined fairly well on Wikipedia however.

I have seen users problems, concerns, and complaints about some users' user rights in the past. Typically these should be addressed individually on user talk pages, or in some cases a forum where the community can review a user's current ability to properly use their rights. Topics such as this shouldn't be discussed on the admin wiki, even if it's one admin discussing it with another admin. It should be on their wiki talk page, as if anything such as a demotion were to come from the discussion, for accountability's sake, it would need to be on this wiki.