User blog comment:Xean/What Works for Your Wiki?/@comment-3464779-20110527072932/@comment-26686429-20110527224917

"Users should be promoted only when necessary and inactive admins. must be demoted." Disagree - admins should be promoted if the community trusts them enough. RFA should consider questions such as "does this user fit with the current administrative team?" - and "what things would this user do as an admin that they wouldn't do as a user", but if they can be satisfactorily answered - and the candidate doesn't change behaviour from that users do not need to be desysoped when they become inactive, there's no benifit from this.

It also discourages "burnt out" sysops from retiring for a bit, and potentially returning at a later time. I'd rather have the admin leave for a bit and return later than to have them constantly editing under threat that they'll lose their rights. If they are trusted by the community once, then there's no reason not to keep them unless they change their behaviour.