User blog comment:Bourgeoisie/Why current moderating practices aren't working/@comment-1693968-20150321171350

I only have one comment - I'm the one who promoted Obi to administrator, and when I did so I gave him authority and responsibility along with some additional tools to help out with that responsibility. Every user I've promoted to admin, I've done so with the intention of giving them more authority. If you go and read my promotion blogs, that's how things are worded. The tools that you all talk about were given as well, but that was not what I defined as administrator, they were more of some side powers to help carry out the decisions that were made.

In all of these votes, you guys talk as if all this time we've been violating the definition of what it means to be an administrator, and that we've been depriving the community of these rights that every user should have. However, none of that is accurate. These votes have actually been to change the definition of administrator, and change the definition of community member. The votes are not to begin enforcing a bunch of definitions that have existed since the beginning.