Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-24040319-20140907080203/@comment-294719-20140911182936

Yes, admins do have that power, however I think you've got it twisted. As 452 puts it, the community has the "real" power, but they don't use it, usually because they're unaware that they even have it.

I always look at it like this: if you become an admin, you don't ascend the social ladder on the site, you descend it. As an admin, yes, you do get a bunch of cool tools, but they're all there so that you can make the wiki better for regular users. Therefore your job is to increase other users' enjoyment of the wiki, and they get to decide what happens and what doesn't. So in effect you're serving them, rather than the other way around. Remembering your place as an admin is a great way to stay grounded, because you constantly know in the back of your mind that the users will always have more power and it's impossible to get more. The bad apples are the ones who forget this, or (gulp) just don't care that this is the way it's supposed to be.

As far as dealing with bad admins, I'll agree that the best way to go about it is to try to discuss their behavior with them. If that doesn't work, Wikia will happily investigate the situation if you email them through Special:Contact.