User blog comment:Meta07/BCoW's username colors (also the place to keep track of "special" users)/@comment-28241556-20130113215225/@comment-5294711-20130114112236

I think you mean hard to "differentiate"...

That's because Bureaucrats have nearly the same rights (if not the exact same rights!) as The Founder himself, and they also act as successors to lead the wiki when The Founder left, so....