User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Tips for becoming an admin/@comment-452-20121211025332

Be active pretty much sums it up, and is basically what I tell anyone who asks.

I give rollback rights to anyone undoing vandalism, and I'll give admin rights to anyone who needs access to admin tools, but there are always people with 0 edits asking how to become an admin, and I always just think "Why?" Those people rarely stick around, but I do wonder if they would have stuck around if they had been given admin rights.

I also had no intention of becoming an admin, although it's been unforeseeably useful to have access to admin tools. I became an admin because I was constantly messaging the inactive admin about admin tasks which needed attention, so another user proposed that I be given admin rights.

I've appointed another new admin since becoming a bureaucrat, and would de-admin myself if it wasn't for the fact that I'd still be constantly messaging the other admin to do random things.

I don't know how to be a great admin, but I try to be active and do whatever I can to benefit everyone.