User blog comment:Sannse/Choosing the Right Admins/@comment-5448890-20140731134802

I choose admins by a very specific criteria on a somewhat regular and very regulated basis. Before I begin promoting, I ask myself how many of the admins are still active. Then, I check if they've given us a long leave alert. In short, I make sure we are truly understaffed before employing the use of another admin.

Then, to actually decide who to promote, I look for users who have been blocked no more than once or twice, users who have been actively contributing for a long time, and users who are good with the community, user tools, and are great editors. Chat Moderators are very rarely promoted (because by nature, we don't need many), but they follow the same process, more or less. I don't usually promote bureaucrats.