User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Tips for being a great admin/@comment-452-20121025235412/@comment-20644-20121029181735

@452 -- I like that you leave edit summaries and talk page messages for certain things. One thing I've never been particularly fond of is just using an edit summary to describe something. If a user is new, they may not know about Wiki Activity, Recent Changes, or History right away, so taking the extra step to write them a message is a great thing.

I don't know an example of a less scary name (perhaps Moderator?), but years ago on Star Wars Fanon, we administrators called ourselves "the Cabal." That certainly wasn't helpful.