User blog comment:Mira Laime/How to Deal With a Bad Bureaucrat/@comment-27111442-20160411142812/@comment-5558012-20160411150347

Bureaucrats can do less than an Admin. A user in the admin and bureaucrat group has more tools than one who's just an admin. This statement is true in all cases, unlike stating bureaucrats (usually under the assumption they are also in the admin group, distinctively separate from the bureaucrat group) can do more than admins, which is true in most cases but not all.

Unlike an admin, who is also a rollbacker, discussions moderator, content moderator, and chat moderator (because they have these tools in their group even if they aren't promoted into one of these groups), a bureaucrat is by default none of these. A bureaucrat is only for promoting and demoting most user rights groups. Nothing more.