User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Introducing New Moderator Opportunities For Community Administration/@comment-27393108-20160114110814/@comment-27393108-20160115080636

There needs to be a barrier to entry of course. You have to prove you're trustworthy just like you have to prove you're qualified to edit templates and MediaWiki files. But you shouldn't have to prove you would be a good full-scale admin as well. That's just setting the bar too high for someone who's primarily - maybe exclusively - interested in the technical part of adminship. No admin is an all-in-one device suitable for every purpose and the purpose of technically-minded people is to do tech stuff.