User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Introducing New Moderator Opportunities For Community Administration/@comment-1515612-20160113235354/@comment--20160115050244

Hello,

The goal of these changes is to make user groups more consistent across Wikia and prevent the need to create user groups with a singular purpose. Having a streamlined system - instead of making it more complex - makes more sense in a long-term software architecture.

Simply put, the question I always ask people is "If you trust someone to edit your JavaScript, why don't you trust them to delete content?" (or something similar). The point of these groups is to give some reliable users rights and the ability to gain the community's trust if they seek promotion to admin down the road. Trust and good faith is what good communities are built on - If you can't trust a user with a number of rights, chances are you should not trust him or her with any rights.