Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-424719-20150317165130/@comment-424719-20150317175743

DEmersonJMFM wrote: Promoting someone (as a bureaucrat in particular) in violation to a clear, community written policy should be (in my opinion) grounds enough for Staff to remove those privileges from the promoted user. If the community wrote the policy, then the community doesn't have consensus for the bureaucrat effectively consensus they should be removed by extension.

The puppet issue is hard to prove, especially if you are editing from the same computer. Location could also be an issue, but I'm not an IP expert.

I obviously don't know the whole situation, but, if it's in good faith, I urge you to keep trying by talking to any individuals that have been active on the wiki. Good luck. Thank you, I appreciate you voicing your opinion. I very much agree and after Neo refused to step down, I messaged Semanticdrifter telling him what you just said, and he again refused to get involved. That is the least of his abuses however, I don't think blocking/demoting people who start discussions and closing down community discussions would be tolerated on any wiki. The puppet issue is not as hard to prove as one might think, we all sometimes edit from the same IP when we are home together, but have made it clear any steps outlined in order to prove our uniqueness will be respected and taken. Further, just looking at our contributions proves it, Jinx and me have edited at the exact same time. That, along with getting a 'puppet' account to 500+ edits would be incredibly hard for one person to do.

EDIT:  To me, there are only two ways to become a bureucrat on an already made wiki: follow the community rules to become one, or adopt the wiki. That's all.