Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-25075055-20140410195636/@comment-25075055-20140419145508

Other people suggest giving the privileges to rollbackers, fixing your problem. But you don't like that. Because, out of the 20+ rollback's on the wiki, at most 5 of them need the ability to close/delete/highlight threads/posts. The vast majority of rollbacks either don't care for using the forums, would not use the power to close / highlight / delete threads/posts responsibly, or simply don't use the wiki anymore. What reason is there to give out a permission to 20+ users when a very small number of people need it ?

Plus, when you look at it, if you want to give someone rollback flags for reverting mainspace vandalism, you would unnecessarily grant them moderating powers in the forums that they either don't need, don't want or won't use responsibly. Other people suggest giving the privileges to sysops, fixing your problem. But you don't like that, either. Because the sysops should not be pressured into moderating something they either don't want to use, or have no interest in moderating. Out of all sysops, there's only 1-2 of them who are fully committed to moderating the forums: Ten Tailed Fox and UltimateSupreme. Most of the other sysops either don't have time to moderate the forums, don't have the interest to do so, or simply don't visit the wiki often enough for them to be counted as actually active in modding the forums.

Do please explain how granting extra permissions to 20+ users or increasing the workload of the sysops needlessy is a good idea then.

@Cerez: I agree totally with you. I think rollback needs to be treated with care and not just handed out to every random person. I have granted people rollback because I felt they deserved it (at the time, because they were important to the wiki), but now there are tons of rollbackers and very few of them are actually active: I'd hedge my bets to say at least half the rollbacks do not need the rights any longer. I'm not saying they would abuse it, but I don't see the point in adding additional powers to rollbacks when very few are active forum users.