Forum:Removal of user rights for inactivity

Hey all. I'm a co-bureaucrat at Bully wiki (http://bullygame.wikia.com).

The question is - is removing someone's admin and rollback rights for one month of inactivity due to "bureaucrat's discretion" ok?

Here's the details.

Currently, I'm involved in an issue with the other bureaucrat, User:Dan the Man 1983, on the wiki. Dan has a personal policy that I never agreed to wherein anyone who is inactive for one month has their user rights, be they administrator or rollbacker, removed. The other day, he desysopped User:TheKidInside and removed User:Local Guru Of Bullworth.'s rollback rights. Feeling very strongly that he was out of line and had no right to instate such a policy, I returned their rights. He removed them again, claiming "bureaucrat's discretion". My personal opinion is that this is completely out of line and a borderline abuse of power on Dan's part.

You can read the debate between myself and Dan at my user talk page on Bully Wiki here. For those who don't want to read it, Dan's position was that bureaucrat's discretion is all he requires and that inactivity for one month just plain is enough reason to desysop them. I countered that it isn't, that most wikis don't desysop for inactivity and those that do usually only desysop for one year, and that doing this just discourages editors from coming back. McJeff 17:15, 9 August 2009 (UTC)


 * This should be the community´s decision. If the community is in favor of this policy, then it should stay. If the community wants it changed, it should be changed. -- 17:28, 9 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Per Ose, it should be a community decision - but from experience, one month sounds like an extremely short time. People can go on holiday for that long, or just have a school/work project to complete. Besides, having inactive admins should cause very little damage. 17:38, 10 August 2009 (UTC)