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.

Requests for demotion still needing to be processed

User:Linkthewindow

I've become less interested in this place lately and have gone pretty much inactive over the past couple of weeks. In the interests of not having a 'crat who isn't active enough in the community to really make appropriate judgments on A/RE and A/PM, I would like to step down from 'crat now. I'll stay on as a sysop for now (as I want to get the guides namespace fixed in my time,) and it's also obvious that inactive sysops aren't as bad as inactive crats.

I also apologize to the community for making them have two 'crat bids in (roughly) a month. I thought about leaving this a month for this reason, but talked myself out of it due to the torrent of A/RE bids that's soon to arrive ;). Linkthewindow  Talk  13:49, 10 September 2009 (BST)

Damn. =( Least you're staying on as a sysop though. I'll stick the new 'crat election up now so just feel free to demote yourself when you're next on. Either than or Boxy'll get it when he sees it. He was floating about a little while ago. -- Cheese 22:48, 10 September 2009 (BST)

Thanks Cheese. Since we usually don't touch our own bids, I'll leave this for Boxy. Linkthewindow  Talk  01:13, 11 September 2009 (BST)

Yeah, I was super relieved when I saw that you're staying on as sysop. Cyberbob  Talk  02:01, 11 September 2009 (BST)

"yummm dick tastes sooooo goood!!!! " - bob xoxo 03:23, 11 September 2009 (BST)

I can't believe I laughed at that. --DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION-- 03:24, 11 September 2009 (BST)

Why not? I'm laughing too. Cyberbob  Talk  03:25, 11 September 2009 (BST)

Yeah but you're laughing coz you think you're all superior coz you're tertiary educated and from melbourne.--xoxo 07:24, 11 September 2009 (BST)

but I am Cyberbob  Talk  07:27, 11 September 2009 (BST)

Well you're not laughing, or superior.--xoxo 07:37, 11 September 2009 (BST)

And by Tertiary education, we mean Uni. Not "Games Workshop"--CyberRead240 07:41, 11 September 2009 (BST)

Fairynuff, Link... but please keep the 'crat status until a new one is elected, even if you're less active. I'm pretty busy ATM, and can't guarantee to be on if needed in a hurry (not that it's an issue much) -- boxy ^{talk • teh rulz} 17:02 11 September 2009 (BST)

... --DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION-- 17:11, 11 September 2009 (BST)

Sounds fine. Linkthewindow  Talk  07:55, 12 September 2009 (BST)

Recent Actions

Older actions can be found in the archive.

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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)