Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-25075055-20140616212248/@comment-1251315-20140628085735

No, staff positions do not require voting on anything. The only staff position that requires a consensus is a bureaucrat flag, since that requires Wikia intervention to perform. The whole idea of doing a consensus just to give people chat moderator flag was abused and is why voting there has been locked down: the thing got out of hand. Getting rid of the community consensus to promote people to things like chat mod, forum mod and rollback is not necessary, the tools given by these flags are rather minor and do little damage to a wiki, so why do these things need to be consensus'd

I am a member (and rollbacker) on Narutopedia, which has worked just fine without doing a consensus on any staff positions, the lone crat there only gives people a flag if he feels they need it: this is something which I firmly believe is a way to fix the problems here on the wiki with staff members unnecessarily getting a flag that they probably don't require. Consensus to promote people into anything less than a sysop or crat flag has caused everyone to treat them as popularity contests and therefore status symbols, which they're not.

Also, there are some people with sysop flag who have never visited in four years. It is quite obvious to me that such a user doesn't need their tools: if, however, they return, they should be forced to show they're willing to help out in the community again before they can regain their tools. Recently, there has been a problem where certain users have been going idle for very long periods of time and continuing to hold their flag for no reason and, whenever anyone questioned them in the past, they would come back and make some bullshit excuse that certain users swallowed, hook line and sinker.

It's understandable that you don't fully understand everything being discussed here, you have been away for an extended period of time, but all these issues are real, but you seem to want to bury your head in the sand and pretend there is no problem, which is concerning. I am trying to help the wiki. >_>