User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-452-20160919170829/@comment-5558012-20160920022752

Spot on. Not every wiki can just throw moderator rights at people and expect someone to take them and do good by them. Maybe it's different for Discussions, but most of the users I see post infrequently and aren't very active to be efficient moderators.

Being "separate" (detached) and being optional through ignorance aren't excuses to the problem of extra work (the latter was kind of an insult to Admins, like myself, who care about a wiki). Perception is vastly important and is hard to correct if negative. I've seen it first hand due to Admins that don't maintain a wiki properly or fail to instruct editors to do the same.