Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-25523075-20150607080852/@comment-5007040-20150607085953

Ripto22475 wrote: RainingPain17 wrote: You have removed your bureaucrat rights on January 2, which explains why you can't promote anyone.

You'll have to contact staff to request them again. I never understood why people remove rights from theirselves. Even if its an accident... There are big wikis where people do that when they become inactive. However on small wikis it doesn't happen that much :)