Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1519608-20140124173027/@comment-1330470-20140205025504

Tupka217 wrote: Adoption shouldn't influence Founder status, should it?

Nothing can change the "Founder" status, which does not provide any rights other than a cool sticker on a userpage. The founder is administrator and bureaucrat by default. Any administrator+bureaucrat promoted at a later date will be equal in rights to the founder, but without the sticker.