Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28083312-20161223141011

I’ve noticed many users with this group, but when looking at my own profile in Special:ListUsers pages of any kind, I appear not to be in this group. I’ve seen users with much less edits than I, who are much less active than I, & who are active on fewer Wikis than I, so I am confused as to what the metric for being a Poweruser actually is. Do you just have to make a certain number of edits to main namespace articles over a certain span of time? Do you have to acquire it before you acquire other user-groups such as Admin? Or is it invisible to the person who has it? Also, what are the metrics for removing this group? Inactivity? Because I’ve seen editors who once were in this group, but are no longer. The Help:User rights section on Powerusers says that the user-group is simply a “flag,” but not how this flag is acquired nor what it exists to flag.

I’m overflowing with curiosity, so what is the Poweruser group all about? What are the metrics for being one? Why does it even exist in the first place? So many questions. I’m sure “it’s not that deep fam,” but still, this itches at me. 