User blog comment:Mira Laime/How to Deal With a Bad Bureaucrat/@comment-1251315-20160225083337/@comment-26339491-20160225230659

The thing with putting a foot down on bad bureaucrats is that it's difficult to draw the line between "this is a really bad bureaucrat and everyone would be better off if we demoted them" and "this bureaucrat is a bit excentric, but probably still okay".

Once we start really looking at what's been going on at a wikia and to make a judgement call ourselves, to be fair, we'd have to do that for all wikias that call for help. It might set a bad precendent, and soon communities in trouble might ask for staff help before they've even tried their best to sort things out on their own.

For the few cases where an intervention by Wikia staff could be a really big help, there'll be many more where the community could also have worked it out on their own, or where we wouldn't be able to even tell who's wrong and who is right. For example, if we're not an expert on the topic, we might not even be able to tell if you're vandalizing or making the content better/if the bureaucrat is right to kick you out or is being a tyrant ;)

