Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28857013-20131201125803/@comment-366087-20131204230718

ItsBloonTasty wrote: Well, yeah. But we only contact wikia to promote/demote someone to above chatmod, which is not every hour or so. Which means we are not really bothering Wikia MUCH. @undefined Consider this: Had the "perfect storm" of conditions been met when reporting This Last Situation… (message a Staff member + plus beginning of a [1 or 2 week] vacation + then told to use Special:Edit(2-3 days response) + beginning of weekend) …it could have taken anywhere from 10 to 19 days to get a response.

Granted, that is an extreme case and waiting on only one Staff member to reply. I'm sure that after a day or two another message would be placed to another Staff (who might then say use Special:Contact), but I hope you get my point. Relying on Staff for what should be Local Administration is a poor long-term strategy.

They would also be within their power to *Promote Someone* to bureaucrat. Could be someone the community does not care for, although Staff would probably start a (week-long) discussion to make a decision. If necessary, although they prefer not to, they could *choose for you*. Which may be someone the community does NOT care for but whom Staff feels capable, Remember they can see Users' complete activities and histories on all their participant wikis, and what is not cared for here by y'all could still be adjudge by them as over-all good. Or someone you don't even know could be assigned to Adopt this wiki.

So it is better and in your own best interests to reach consensus as to who should be your Bureaucrat.