Thread:Mira Laime/@comment-27407250-20160602212132/@comment-26339491-20160602235921

Ripto just about summed it up. I've personally given a bureaucrat their rights back if they'd only just demoted themselves (clearly by accident). If it has been months since they left, they'd have to go through the adoption process or convince the community to make them a bureaucrat again, just as they'd have to if they'd never been a bureaucrat before.