Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-46539204-20200831160154/@comment-25014407-20200831182513

I am not going to disagree with you fully, because there is definitely quite some truth in that. Admins are often (not always) the main or first users someone is in contact with, and they should definitely be some kind of example figure for new users. They also have additional responsibilities (to sum up the rest of that paragraph). So far, definitely agree with you. However, from what I've seen from newer (and often younger) admins is that they've taken up the role as meaning "micro-manager" or even "god". An admin isn't someone who delegates tasks (also due to "regular" users having no to little responsibilities), they don't own wikis, and they definitely aren't someone who can just do what they want "because they have the power". As you said, they need to be the ones who create opportunities to edit, but also the ones who create the policies.

Maybe "first and foremost" were not the right words, but this is why I mentioned the second part of that reply - they are the ones who create a healthy atmosphere, they need to think with others, but they also need to think about the boundaries. To make it very black and white with "collaborator" and "tyrant", the first one could give the wiki a bad reputation if it goes wrong, but the second one could get your rights stripped or could even get you blocked. I'd rather take my chances with the first one.