User blog comment:Nachtide/Wikian Chat Commandments by Nachtide/@comment-4482373-20160128164800/@comment-4482373-20160128180318

If someone's misbehaving they're less likely to listen to a non-mod, so it's pointless to step in the middle of it. Speaking from experience, when a user tries to backseat mod it often causes further problems.

Also, publicly asking just causes problems. One user will ask, another will see that and ask too, another will tell the said users they can't handle it, said users start an argument. Furthermore, in a situation where asking is okay with the community, a user will ask and get promoted and another user who asked and didn't get promoted will annoy everyone else by complaining that they didn't get promoted. I personally go by the "Don't call us, we'll call you." view, which is the stance my home wiki takes with all user rights promotions. It serves as prevention from getting bombarded with requests.