Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28857013-20131201125803/@comment-4814638-20131203222721

Raindrop57 wrote: If there's no b-crats, then if someone with rights goes inactive, there will be nobody to demote them. And if someone ever needs to be promoted for whatever reason, it's not like Wikia staff will just promote them every single time we ask them. Plus, it takes time to get a response, unlike with a b-crat, who can promote anyone instantly the moment it's needed.

Same thing with demotion. If one of us that already has rights went crazy for whatever reason, they couldn't be demoted until hours later, when Wikia steps in.