Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20150516191501/@comment-53539-20150608220614

Dizzyzebra wrote: Angel Emfrbl wrote: Also in addition, there is a risk that if our current bureaucrats and admins leave, there is nobody to monitor the wikia and we'd have to go to the greater wikia staff. Its particularly bad as sometimes some wikias find themselves with admins and bureaucrats who leave without electing someone else for the job or without notice.

I hate to say it as well, but since O Herman comes here so little now he is practically useless having the title. He isn't the only one like this *sigh*. :-( I'd say just message anyone the admins think is suitable for the job + information about what it would entail.

I'm sure most people would accept if they recieved the request. ( ´ ▽｀)ノ We have no protocol for assigning roles, and nobody with the power seems to be offering anyone else. Only bureaucrats can upgrade accounts. This is why absent accounts like O Herman's is a problem. :-/

Someone may have to approach the wikia staff and get this sorted, removing O Herman and any other staff members who aren't around and reassign them to our more trustworthy members. Hell I'd take up beaucrat role again - if it was only to assign others to proper roles, this time I would resign instantly after the job was one.

Even with the few staff missing, as we grow we need more staff to handle things. I know from larger wikias... Having 4 people handle 100 editors, for example, basically means their in charge of 25 editors each, who in turn can make 100+ edits a day if they wanted. So you could end up asking sometimes these 4 guys to watch possible up to 1000+ edits on a heavy editing day. It doesn't work, especially if 1 takes a vocation or is ill, then its 3 members of staff and it raises to something like 33+ editors per staff members they have to watch.

There should also be less bureaucrats then admins, but there should also be less admins then rollbackers... And a decent ratio between them is desirable if need be... So... Maybe for every 10 rollbackers, 4 admins and 1 beacurat, for example... I don't know... I just wrote random no. down I admit here... But you get the idea.

I'm speaking from experience of editing wikias for over a decade now... >_<