User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Tips for being a great admin/@comment-4544974-20121025223322/@comment-4544974-20121025231104

"Those power-abusing jokers (and i've come across many), are not admins."

I'm a bureaucrat on a few Wikis, and I always check the history of the requester to see if they've been an admin and/or abused their powers in the past. If they have a history of power abuse, it's off. I don't know about everyone else on Wikia, but it is always a good idea to check the history of a user who wants to be an admin before granting them the powers.