Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-30683785-20160806191843/@comment-7855039-20160807202434

How does one define being "inactive?" Is a user inactive if they have not made an edit in "x" amount of time (with x being whatever amount of time people vote for in q2)?

If the above is true, that it's based on edits in x amount of time, then I agree with Star – what's with someone coming back, say, a day before they lose their rights due to time? Then they go away fro another 5 months and 29 days.

And, also like Star said, if a user with rights happens to visit shortly before their "inactive timer" runs out, people will most likely claim that that person simply returned so that they can reset their timer, thus bringing a negative public image to that person ! D:

I think it shouldn't be a specific "time" that we base activity on, but how we personally judge inactivity. If someone thinks a user is inactive and thus should not have rights – lets say in this scenario the user with rights is making one edit every 6 months to avoid losing their rights – then they should submit a petition to the admins explaining the user's inactivity and how it deserves the removal of their rights. And this Demotions policy is already in place! See this. The administrators, seeing the user is inactive but is simply gaming the "activity timer" system so that they can hold on to their rights, would most likely understand and vote to remove the user's rights.

The above method makes a lot more sense, because basing activity on "time since last edit/chat apperance/whatever" makes no sense. Simply visiting the wiki every once in a while to reset the "activity timer" and keep on to a user's rights makes no sense!

Because of this, I vote B). Even if others disagree with my alternative idea of simply continuing to use the Demotions policy, I encourage others to vote B) and suggest some other method that is not simply a timer a user with rights may restore with one edit (or chat apperance, or revision, or whatever time-based way this vote will determine activity).

Cheers!