User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Tips for being a great admin/@comment-3508190-20121028142656/@comment-3562424-20121028184351

If that was possible, what would make a crat different from an admin? When the community promotes an admin to a crat, they do so with the knowledge that now the crat can promote users to admins and crats. When we elect an admin, it's for janitorial purposes. For everything else, just talk to a crat for the temporary promotion or use S:C or the VSTF