Thread:Igor the Mii/@comment-961279-20150628165029/@comment-1196129-20150628165858

RRabbit42 wrote: I stumbled across the mess that's been happening on the other GoAnimate wikis and see you're starting over here. Whether or not one particular user "hacked the Wikia servers" to get extra user rights as was reported, this is an example of why you have to be careful about who is a bureaucrat on a wiki. Once someone is a bureaucrat, only a Wikia employee can remove that user right from them.

You now have five bureaucrats here. As long as all five of you stay active, that should be enough for quite a long time. If it becomes necessary to promote someone, don't automatically give them bureaucrat rights. Have them work their way up. Start with Chatmod and/or Rollback rights, and then to Admin if they prove themselves. Don't go any further than admin rights unless it's clear that the existing bureaucrats aren't coming back and you need a new one as backup.

The last time I saw bureaucrat rights given out freely, it turned out to be just as bad as what you're seeing now on the GoAnimate V3 wiki: user rights being granted and revoked almost constantly. That other wiki also came under attack when the wrong people were promoted, and part of it was friends giving their friends advanced user rights, and then taking them away again, as if they were playing "user rights tag".

On the wikis I've been involved in, we established a process that had minimum requirements before someone could be nominated or request extra user rights. It made things go slower than some people would have liked, but it helped ensure that the ones we did promote, especially if it included bureaucrat rights, were people we knew we could trust. Finally, someone who speaks my language!