User blog comment:Sannse/Choosing the Right Admins - Revisited/@comment-24258073-20171011213340

Yeah. It takes a lot to prove yourself on certain bigger wikis. I needed to give it all I had in order to become an admin on the first wiki I ever joined. And yeah, it's definitely true that Staff don't usually remove bad admins, since local communities are given free rein in large part, as long as it doesn't violate the TOU.

When I was newer to Wikia in 2014, and I heard that Staff didn't normally intervene in local issues, I was originally under the impression that it meant that they didn't normally intervene unless asked. However it became clear that they didn't normally intervene in general.