User blog comment:MisterGryphon/The State of the Wiki./@comment-5358994-20121109052635

I am going to reply to this blog as best as possible; some points I agree on and some I don't. My opinion has changed multiple times over reading this blog and its comments, so I will record my thoughts as best I can, with numbers for each paragraph:

1. I agree that Cacher is trying to make himself seem like an administrator, first with the bot, and now the welcome message. I completely agree with DJCrawf on how to handle this. It is assumed that the user leaving a welcome message is an admin, unless stated otherwise. This is exactly what Cacher must do.

2. I do think we should remove admin rights for the inactive admins, excluding the founder. After all, there is a user rights log, and if they come back, we can promote them to admin again. Also, Jguy and Ext do more admin type activities, such as blocking and general overwatch.

3. It is far too common to see a user that comes into chat, and just made an account for that very purpose. They make little to no edits, and some of them end up getting kicked or banned. As of writing this, we have exactly 1,020 registered users (not IPs) that have 4 or less edits. I found this statistic by navigating to Special:ListUsers, checking only "no group", and selecting edits: 5 or more. The number given for those options is 558, out of 1,578 total. Also, they ask around on chat before even checking the wiki page itself. Many of these users never contribute again after their short bout on the chat.