Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-4787430-20140222001935/@comment-3076045-20140222102448

DarthOrc wrote: There are times when an admin cannot access the internet for prolonged periods (such as serving on a nuclear submarine in any number of navies); they can be cut off for months at a time. A year is not too long. It does not hurt this Wiki to leave inactive admins with their title, name coloration and rights active. There is no limit to how many admins a Wiki can have, so they just add to the length of the list of admins.

Some kind of indication they have been inactive could be added next to their names so users don't address queries to them that probably won't get answered would be helpful, though. Do... Do we have any admins working on a nuclear submarine? (Like, is this an issue that we are likely to have? :P)

That said - if someone who was a staff member, and did a good job whilst they were a staff member, and then had to leave for work or military reasons - for example, served overseas, then finished their tour and came home - I would probably nominate them to be restored to their previous status. They showed enough decication the first time, and I think they would probably get them restored via the voting process anyway. (If they were actually a good staff member, that is). True, community changes, but Grandpa Timeoin will still be here, at least :P At most - they'll get a lot of "neutral" votes, as folks may not know them, and dont want to vote positively or negatively for that reason.