Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4783814-20150805230836

Lately, we have gotten more adminship requests then before and I thought I'd post this.

http://supersmashbros.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:DerpyDoodle/The_Truth_About_Admins_and_Rollbacks

This link goes to the Super Smash Bros Wiki and it says one thing very important. It talks about the Wikipedia policy which says:

HAVING ADMINSHIP DOES NOT MAKE YOU SPECIAL I couldn't agree more. You are NOT special if you are an admin, rollback, or chat moderator. You are NOT an all-powerful being. If you abuse your rights, you DO get them taken away and you WILL BE BLOCKED. It seems that some adminship requests we have received in the past are people persuing POWER. They ARE NOT dedicated to becoming an admin. They make pointless edits THEN request adminship within a day or joining. We have to TURN DOWN those requests. You do NOT get to be an all-powerful being as admin.

Adminship is not a PRIZE or a REWARD for hardwork. It's an extra responsibility. You are not being rewarded when you are "rewarded" with adminship. It means you are a hard-working user who is capable with helping this wiki.

Nearly everything an admin can do, a normal user can do too. The ONLY things that an admin can do that a normal user cannot are: That's pretty much the only REAL perks of being an admin. You are NOT special if you are an admin. In fact, if you DO showboat about your new role and brag about being an admin. you WILL get demoted. An admin needs to make people feel useless and worthy. Not downtrodden them.
 * 1) Close, highlight and remove threads
 * 2) Ban users
 * CSS

You can read the post for yourself if you would like as I am not going to summarize everything said there.

Thank you for reading and have a great day!

 Appler   Talk    23:08, August 5, 2015 (UTC) 