Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment--20150814190019/@comment-26402117-20150815182859

Jr Mime wrote: Sysops are the only ones that can add JS on their wiki. Having every editor allowed to make suggestions and spam the system is not the solution. Also, sysops were the main cause of this conflict.

The users who made the hack were not elevated and we would be informed by some sort of admin vetting feature or disciplining or sysop permission deactivation in full if it was admins hacking the Wikia.

Are you sysop? People don't randomly become sysop, and rogue admins have to put a lot of effort into scoring a lot of quality edits for a high editcount before it pays for the effort and they can abuse their responsibility.

I know I got sysop on one wiki only because of HARD WORK. I would never cash that in for a stupid troll and its too much of a bother anyway. Community complaints usually wind up pretty quickly for that sort of behaviour and Wikia Staff can demote automatically if the admin uses his power to interfere in the community discussion to get a editor consensus on stripping the rogue admin's rank.

From the above points, I hope its clear that blaming the editors in the sysop class is not the solution. Besides, the users were confirmed to be new and barely authenticated not sysop. Refrain from playing the blame game. The very nature of infiltrating a wiki to become a rogue admin makes the idea so intensely ridiculous. You have VSTF authority, would you do this for the banter and risk losing your position?

PS: It is now to my understanding that the user Jr Mime referred specifically to users whose accounts were compromised and were elevated; a view which I agree with when he explained further. I apologise sincerely for assuming that the comment was critical of Wikia's local admins and hope Jr Mime accepts this apology.