User blog comment:KCCreations/My Thoughts On Adminship/@comment-1267828-20150710052648

Those are all fair points.

The point you make that I agree with the most is definitely when people ask for rights. I must admit that such a thing on the wiki's I run typically shows me an individual who wants to become an admin because adminship is 'cooler' than being a regular user. Often this runs into several serious problems, the major one being that the individual doesn't have any investment in the community in question, and thus may get the powers and never return, or isn't actually interested in the wellbeing of the wiki, just being an admin and the power it grants.

On top of that, people who request the powers tend to turn up as worse candidates for powers than people who do not. On more than one occasion I have seen a poorly chosen individual boosted to the rank of admin, then absolutely blast everything the wiki stands for with their behavior. On many of those occasions, said admins were people who requested adminship on wiki's where admin's were being sought, rather than being given it after the individual has been scouted for their good behavior and helpful work on said wiki.

While I do agree with what you said, the typical counterargument to everything you said would be "Well, there are awful admins out there who DO use their admin powers as a way to show their power and control!" and that's usually where the arguments come from.

tl;dr: Good blog, agree with everything you said.