User blog comment:Madman97/What Fun! More Wikia Drama!/@comment-4544033-20150120035307/@comment-1251315-20150120114635

I should point out that you can't "remove" the sysop group from the wiki. There has to be sysops on the wiki in some way, you can rename them but I don't recommend this. IMO, the general requirements to become a sysop and patroller should be lowered considerably to give others more of a chance, however please don't take this as support for a hierarchy or anyone just getting rights.

My opinion is to lower the requirements and fix up the user rights so there's more community involvement in promoting users. This can be achieved by granting some users the ability to grant the flag they have to others on community consensus, meaning that the community can discuss together in places like the chat to find out if the user should be appropriate. Sysops should also get the ability to grant and revoke more flags so that they do not need to rely on crat level users to grant the flags. :)