User blog:MrScience12/The Middle Ground on Rights

All great wikis, past, present, and future, all share similar characteristics that allow them to stand out from the rest, one of these being a stable system of hierarchy. Popularly, this system is referred to as "rights". As though masters of this system and its many fluxuations, wikis such as Encyclopedia SpongeBobia always seem to be one step ahead of rights catastrophe. Though our wiki has weathered instances of intense rights mishap in the past, these debates and conflicts seem to still affect the wiki today. Most recently, today.

Users RamDarre and Doctor Bugs have published proposals to reinstating bureaucrats and demoting a former administrator respectivey. Generally, this seems quite balanced: a promotion for a demotion. I support both of these cases, for this allows for veteran users to regain their positions to regulate the wiki and new users to establish themselves as mainstays of the community. It appears as there is no reason to fear a shift in the course of the wiki presently, yet what about the future?

In order to figure out the issues that might arise in the future, we must travel to the past...one and a half years ago. From the time period of June 2013 to around March 2014, instability of user rights was of normality on the community. The number of administrators, bureaucrats, chat moderators, and rollbacks on the wiki were either poisonously high or cautiously low. Fluxuation of the rights and the users of their possession was persistent nearly everyday, and recovery was furthest from the mind. Of course, these problems have undergone half-lifes since then, yet still affect the wiki, most notably in the rush of this afternoon.

With this sudden flurry for rights instatement and removal, the number of bureaucrats seems to be propelling towards the all-time high set back in June of 2013. Thus, the number of admins will increase rapidly almost by default. New generations of users, most likely never to hear of this past rights fluxuation or knowledge of this blog post, will demand a spot in the limelight, a trend that will continue almost to no end.

One thread comment on the forums with an inappropiate innuendo does not require eight admins and ten bureaucrats to remove it from the mainspace. Two users that spam the chatroom for no other reason than their innate ability does not require a city and a half of chat moderators to escort them. A set number of users is required for progression on the wiki. I consider us a great wiki with a strong community, and a standard of hierarchy is the factor that will put us on the map.

'''The wiki needs a middle ground of the number of rights. Let us all agree on that.'''

-Prevention is key! Interpret that what you may.