Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-2248043-20160109084630/@comment-5007040-20160110072126

SuperSajuuk wrote: I agree with most of 2Actimv's assessment, though I would disagree about "enemies" playing a factor, as if a user has enemies, then the opinion of the enemies can usually be ignored for simply "hating" with no substance. It is natural for some users to not like others for a variety of reasons.

In an example, User A is a well respected editor by many and is planning to become a sysop. But there's a couple of people that don't like User A and that's because User A warned them for bad edits, vandalism or other disruptive behaviour. I have found that whenever a user warns another for bad editing, it causes the other editor to dislike the user who is warning them, simply on the basis of "they warned me for an edit". In many cases, their opinions can be effectively rendered moot based on whatever contributions they have made (for me, there was a user on a wiki who literally did nothing to improve the wiki and simply posted in threads I had either created or contributed an opinion in, and his contributions were merely to slander and insult whatever I had posted, simply on the basis of "I don't like him").

Edit counts are usually not important. The value of the contributions are most important, so if you tag a lot of pages for deletion, report vandalism to the local sysops of the wiki in question or make requests to sysops to do specific things, then those are qualities that will probably result in you getting sysop on the wiki, as you have shown that you do a lot of edits that require a sysop to intervene. Don't simply go out of your way to make such edits, simply to get sysop though, that will likely lower your chances. I actually meant two or more good contributors who are in a fight. That happens on too many wikis unfortunately...