Thread:Dragonfly82/@comment-25112275-20140911143656/@comment-25112275-20140915004259

The reason we ask for applications is very simple. We want admins who are going to be active and help improve the wiki. We don’t vote on members because some editors don’t want to be admins or some editors have not displayed admin qualities. Our community is also very small right now, so there aren't many people to vote in. Users can certainly suggest, on the forums, who they would like to see as an admin and the admins will take the user into consideration. Those under consideration must meet some, if not all, the requirements to becoming an admin. Once again, because we want active users and they must meet the requirements.

When a user applies for an admin position they are telling the current admins they want to help better the site. That they can and will handle the responsibility and act the way admins are expected to act.

We do have a council. They are not admins; they are the devoted editors that have been asked to sit in admin discussions. This is how I started out. I was a devoted editor for a while and had some ideas for improving the site.

Most of our active members are the admins, or devoted editors. Many of the admins are able to talk to one another on skype, so when we need to make big decisions we make them together. We do ask the community, quite often, for their opinion. However, once again, our community is small and we don’t receive very much feedback. So generally most of the decisions are made by the admins and devoted editors.

We have a set policy guide that everyone, no matter your rank, is expected to follow. An Admin not following these policies or misusing their abilities could very well be taken off the admin team. However, I am not sure how the whole process works. To my knowledge, we have never had an admin misuse their power. However, I have only been an admin for a few weeks. To ask some of the more technical things it would be best to ask the oldest admin Taya.

The only problem we've had with badges, were people making useless edits to boost their count. However, this has changed drastically with the introduction of the new policies.