Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-34115-20150626061048/@comment-1207741-20150626173554

SuperSajuuk wrote: Forum Operators were created because sysops were doing nothing to manage the forums when they were opened to more discussions, despite being asked many times to actually do something: the forums got into a bad state of affairs because the users with the rights to do anything about it were not doing anything at all. I got more and more irritated by your lack of intervention in forum discussions, hence Dantman decided to create some additional rights so that the users who were interested in the forums could moderate them, instead of having to constantly request sysops to do things that, for the majority of the time, they were ignoring. I don't want to become too involved in this topic, but I want to address this quote because I feel it's an ongoing misrepresentation. This sequence of events as I recall them is:
 * 1) Sajuuk is nominated for sysop rights.
 * 2) The wiki does not feel he needs sysop rights, but has no problems with him be given tools to help him contribute to the forums.
 * 3) Dantman creates the forum user groups so that Sajuuk can indeed contribute to the forums more. Sysops' level of activity in the forums was not, from what I can tell, a consideration.

I also do not feel it should matter whether it's a sysop or a moderator who does something. Contributing is not a competition, so as long as something gets done then everyone should be happy.