Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wiki/@comment-12336158-20140205195247/@comment-168424-20140205224258

To say "Bureaucrats have so little influence on day-to-day operations of a wiki" is completely and utterly false. It is true that a bureaucrat can choose to have very little influence, but many are also admins and often the primary admin. All that said, whether a user is a Bureaucrat or not should be of much more interest to other admins and most users should not have much reason to contact a Bureaucrat specifically for what they can do that an admin (sysop) can't.

Remember, an Bureaucrat can make themselves an admin (sysop) and de-admin a current admin. This is a significant ability and shouldn't be diminished. A Bureaucrat can do more to bring a wiki back from the dead than an admin/sysop alone.