User blog comment:Mdouglas3/My Hope For This Wiki/@comment-5358994-20120916232045/@comment-5429934-20120917181752

To be clear, I was not insinuating that he or any other admin meant it any other way. And since a word, such as "power" can be misinterpreted by the reader between an "ability" and a "position", we need to be more careful for the sake of the community.

Even the Wikia quote you gave uses the words "priveleges" and "ability" (they do say "power" elsewhere, but sparingly). I only used the previous quote by Rogue as an example since he was so adament he had never referred to admin as being a position of "power". Did he mean "responsibilities"? Yes. Was it completely clear what was meant? No, it was open to interpretation (or perhaps misinterpretation). Did he know the IRC log was going to be "used against him"? Of course not.

It's all semantics, really. My point was that users see short quotes with words that can be misinterpreted and start referring to staff as being in positions of power. And that word was use liberally in many comments by several users (not actual administrators) recently. In my opinion, that cultural thinking needs to change. Otherwise you start seeing users refer to the recent meaningless "vote of no confidence" as a "power struggle" when it's really not. It's a distraction (from the main purpose of building the wiki) that can be easily avoided.