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:Swiers

He's now less than 12 hours from 4 months of inactivity. =( Time for the nudge? -- Cheese 16:12, 27 August 2009 (BST)

A bit late, but Link and SA seem to be away lots, so I've left a notice on his talk page. --DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION-- 05:44, 31 August 2009 (BST)

Thanks for that. Yeah, I've been away a fair bit lately and I think SA's having computer problems :(. Linkthewindow  Talk  07:55, 31 August 2009 (BST)

Yeah, I think I remember him saying something about video card problems. Cyberbob  Talk  08:02, 31 August 2009 (BST)

You'd have to have one hell of a video card problem to not be able to play UD ;) --DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION-- 09:09, 31 August 2009 (BST)

I got the impression that it's more or less completely fucked. Cyberbob  Talk  11:05, 4 September 2009 (BST)

Someone do this or i'm misconducting all of you.--xoxo 07:00, 4 September 2009 (BST)

The note was put on his page on the 31st so he's got a week from then which would be the 6th. -- Cheese 10:58, 4 September 2009 (BST)

But muuuuuuuuuum--CyberRead240 10:59, 4 September 2009 (BST)

no you shut up dad! Cyberbob  Talk  11:05, 4 September 2009 (BST)

hahha, me likey.--xoxo 04:09, 5 September 2009 (BST)

I'd like to suggest that we let swiers demotion to be ruled through his re-evalatuion. Demotion through inactivity main goal is to remove sysops who rule on vandal and misconduct cases, which were areas that swiers never had interest in. Swiers also had interest in the position for the tools that come together with it, so if he is to ever return to his duties as a contributor i believe he might need them. --People's Commissar Hagnat ^{[talk] [wcdz]} 16:13, 5 September 2009 (BST)

If he ever returns he can make a promotions bid just like everyone else who got inactivity-demoted. Cyberbob  Talk  16:28, 5 September 2009 (BST)

Hangnut we have little things called rules here you crazy negress.--xoxo 06:26, 6 September 2009 (BST)

Alright. It's had its time now. Box? --DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION-- 14:13, 6 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	2024-06-10	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)