UDWiki:Administration/Demotions

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This page is for system operators to request a demotion of status, or for enaction of demotion due to long-term inactivity. The act of demotion is restricted to those with bureaucrat status, and as such system operators will need to request their demotion here.

Guidelines for Demotion Requests

Request

System operators who wish to request demotion must consider these things before applying.

• Reason for demotion - As demotions cannot be reversed unless the user goes through promotions page again, the user is asked to make sure that they are making the correct decision when applying for demotion.

After a system operator has submitted his or her demotion request, the active Bureaucrats will review it, and after reaching a unanimous decision, choose to either demote the system operator deny his or her request. After action has been taken, the request will be moved to the archive.

Inactivity

main article: Policy Text

• A sysop that hasn't made any edit in four months will be warned, on their talk page, by a Bureaucrat, that they face demotion of their sysop powers in one week, if they remain inactive.
• One week after the warning has been placed, dependant on the actions of the sysop, the Bureaucrat will decide whether or not to carry out the demotion.

• This is to avoid, for example, the unlikely case of a sysop simply making a single edit with the aim of avoiding the demotion.
• The Bureaucrat is trusted and bound to make a fair decision, and not to demote a sysop who clearly demonstrates a return to activity on the wiki.

• Any demonstrable abuse of this power by a Bureaucrat, however unlikely, could (as with any other abuse of specific powers) be grounds for a Misconduct case.

• If the sysop makes no response at all to the warnings, they must be demoted.

Recent Actions

Older actions can be found in the archive.

The General

It's pretty obvious that I'm not currently able to fulfill my duties as a sysop (the fact that I haven't gotten around to this until now is ample example of this). Anyway, I shall finally step down as a sysop. I may or may not return at some point in the future. If I do return then I will consider reapplying for promotion if I have managed to regain the trust of the community.--The General ^{T Sys U! P! F!} 20:54, 8 May 2010 (BST)

Can't we just leave this for, what, less than 24 hours and have the community turf you out unceremoniously? 20:58, 8 May 2010 (BST)

The community have made it quite clear that I no longer enjoy their support and I sympathise with the sentiment. In all honesty, I intended to do this earlier but never got round to it (which us kinda the story of the last 8 months, really). The community has made their opinion clear and I accede to their wishes. The community have their way and we can archive the whole thing a bit early. There's no need to call the bouncers, I can find my own way out.--The General ^{T Sys U! P! F!} 21:31, 8 May 2010 (BST)

To be honest, I actually didn't realise how close on the ending of the re-evaluations this actually was. Still, feel free to process this now rather than wait for the deadline.--The General ^{T Sys U! P! F!} 22:00, 8 May 2010 (BST)

If you had any sense you would have done this ages ago. Saying you don't need to be forced out is completely bullshit, if it weren't for the re-evaluation this demotion would never happen. --Thadeous Oakley 22:16, 8 May 2010 (BST)

We usually ask if you're sure, and stuff, but given the circumstances, I think we can do away with the formalities. I'll demote you now, and thank you for your contributions, in the day :D -- boxy ^{talk • teh rulz} 23:07 8 May 2010 (BST)

Aren't you supposed to at least let Ross see this request before acting on it? 23:13, 8 May 2010 (BST)

I contacted him telepathically -- boxy ^{talk • teh rulz} 06:28 9 May 2010 (BST)

Aww, well played! --

 

 

 

 

06:31, 9 May 2010 (BST)

You're right. He is. --Thadeous Oakley 23:22, 8 May 2010 (BST)

Meh. Grim's done it before, etc, etc. *more history lessons* --

 

 

 

 

01:51, 9 May 2010 (BST)

And a wonderful role model he was... 01:53, 9 May 2010 (BST)

Boxy more or less cycled his bid anyway, I've done it without Boxy's input before, as grim also did without boxy's input once which resulted in hilarious grim lols. Either way, Grim was awesome so shoosh --

 

 

 

 

02:20, 9 May 2010 (BST)

Eh, let him maintain his dignity and go out of his own volition. He didn't cause any active harm to the wiki, and he did contribute when he was around. The least he deserves is that much, and both achieve the same end anyway. —Aichon—.

Sysop Activity Check

User	Position	Last Contribution	Seat Available
A Helpful Little Gnome (Contribs)	Bureaucrat	2021-10-29	2021-12-01
DanceDanceRevolution (Contribs)	Bureaucrat	2021-10-28	2021-12-01
Rosslessness (Contribs)	Sysop	2021-10-14	N/A
Stelar (Contribs)	Sysop	2021-10-29	N/A

Total Sysops: 4 (excluding Kevan, LeakyBocks and Urbandead)

Last updated at: 03:58, 28 October 2021 (UTC)