User blog comment:Sannse/I Want to Be an Admin/@comment-4143277-20140514164212/@comment-4832646-20140526014808

I myself am an admin on several dead wikis, a semiactive wiki, and one big wiki, and I can honestly say when I first started editing, I genuinely was shooting for adminship. But this wasn't because I wanted a personal badge or respect, I wanted the rights because I honestly felt that I could better help the wiki with them.

This has turned out to be largely true. On Spinpasta, I started the RCaDC, which eventually became a user right, categorized all of the uncategorized pages, and a number of other things. On Creepypasta, I wrote the drafts for the updated Quality Standards, the Vandalism Policy, cleared out around half of a category we were getting rid of by hand while waiting on a bot to do it, and deleted 243 redirects over the course of 3 hours.

Either way though, I didn't get the rights just because I was wanting them; I got them because I enjoy working on the wikis and helping them become a better site to enjoy for others.