User blog comment:Sannse/I Want to Be an Admin/@comment-33628828-20140515183134/@comment-452-20140515183650

The attitude that you shouldn't ask to be an admin stems from the fact that the majority of people who ask to be admins are unsuited for the task.

For some reason, a great many people request adminship as their first contribution, or within their first week of editing.

Of course, if someone who has been on a wiki for years and has thousands of edits was to request adminship in order to help with a backlog of maintenance issues which the current administration is unable or unwilling to deal with - then I don't think anyone would have a problem with that request.

Wanting to be an admin without a need to be an admin is the problem.