Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-11488851-20160102001545/@comment-5558012-20160102021637

C.Syde65 wrote: They used to have an inactive admin policy, but it was discontinued a couple of years ago. I looked into those threads and the negatives are pretty weak, more so now than back then. It's much easier to remove inactive Bureaucrats today. Activity was made more difficult to define than necessary. Activity could have easily been based off namespace edits in a time period. No activity with 'x' amount of time results in a demotion. No need to go crazy. Even if they make a minor edit, they have interest in the wiki and shouldn't be demoted via an inactive policy. If you still wanted to remove them from their position, have a community discussion and remove them in a way you would remove them for any other reason.

For example, we automatically demote an Admin after six months of zero activity. That simple. They then receive a 'Former Admin' usertag. If they come back (which has never happened with those demoted, even when we weren't demoting users for years of inactivity), they can prove once again they have a serious interest in the wiki/community and can regain their previous position in the same way as any other user.