Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-28460949-20180104165835

Let’s face it – the mini admin rank on this wiki’s relatively useless as of now. Such admins can’t even punish, let’s say, vandals or trolls by banning them properly! This fact is made even worse when you realise just how more active mini admins are compared to the actual admins. So, to make everybody’s lives easier by giving mini admins more useful and not having to bug normal admins just to ban one petty rule breaker  I propose that more power is given to mini admins!

How to do it? Simple! Instead of using a combination of the content moderator and discussion moderator roles (Which in itself may lead to some confusion and technical problems), mini admins would get the simple “Admin” tag that may also be renamed to “Mini Admin” for cosmetic purposes!

Though it does make admins less powerful, they’d still be the only ones to have the bureaucrat permissions – demoting and promoting users. Besides, would this change be such a bad thing? Even if it may seem to make mini admins too powerful, it may be possible to establish a system where certain actions must be approved by an admin, like changing the wiki’s theme or changing the wiki’s core pages (Mainly, the MediaWiki and, say, the rules page or the wiki’s main page).

Please consider stating your reasons for supporting or opposing when voting.

 