User blog comment:Mira Laime/How to Deal With a Bad Bureaucrat/@comment-961279-20160226054912

I have seen on a few wikis where people were promoted to administrator and bureaucrat rights were also granted at the same time. This was mostly done on wikis where the bureaucrat was a younger person who didn't know that automatically granting both when you make someone an admin is not a good idea.

The result was on a couple wikis that the new bureaucrats began giving and removing user rights so often that I actually lost track of who did what. And on one of these, they had somewhere around 15 or 20 bureaucrats within a few days or weeks.

So one of the ways to avoid having to go through a formal process of removing a bureaucrat is just be careful in the first place. Bureaucrat rights should never be granted causually.