User blog comment:Ditto Duck Penguin/What is Rankism?/@comment-5558012-20170824181733

My take is that this topic is all subjective. Some people would cry "rankism" or whatever else just as an effort to retaliate when say an Admin is doing their job and/or following a wiki's policies. Additionally, a user doesn't need a rank to "try to take over" or consider themselves higher than everyone else. Regardless, I wouldn't say this is limited to just vast and old wikis. A small and new wiki can just as easily have a user that can discriminate by "rights" (personally, I believe it would be harder for such discrimination to go unnoticed on a larger wiki).

No user, no matter the rank, should think others don't matter in the community. Wikis are group projects.

If a user with rights is causing a problem, the first step is to talk with the community. The community as a whole has the most power. The community can get an unruly user demoted. Staff isn't likely to do much though unless there's solid proof there's really discrimination going on, the user messes with a community discussion about them, or the community decides they want the user demoted.