User blog comment:KCCreations/My Thoughts On Adminship/@comment-4189499-20150710123106

One thing I feel many new admins don't realise is that the position of administrator gives you both rights and responsibilities. Most just think about the rights. They don't realise that as soon as you become an admin, you become a representative of the wiki, and must modify your behaviour to present the best face to new users. They don't realise that you have to pay close attention to decisions affecting the outcome of the wiki, and that they need to be able to contribute. And most of all, they don't realise that stopping vandals is not the main part of an admin's job.

Anybody who wants to become an admin solely to crack down on vandalism is immediately out in my books. Vandalism tends to be far less common than people seem to think, and most "vandalism" is just people trying to figure out how the software works, or people unfamiliar with the rules surrounding the community spaces. One of the most important things an admin needs to know to do is to give a warning message to a user which both tells them what they've done is wrong yet still encourages them to return and continue editing. If an admin can't do that, then they're just gonna scare new people away from the wiki, which is the opposite of what an admin should be doing.