Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-9062114-20140221021620/@comment-4787430-20140221040807

I don' t want to get this topic off track, but just wanted to point something out that might serve well for a different thread.

Inactive staff members get added to the inactive list, it doesn't mean they will lose their rights. We also have a list of all our past administrators. Past administrators have their rights removed, because they either resigned or were asked stepped down by the community due to conduct.

I do believe that when a significant amount of time passes and an admin has not been active in over a year, then that could be cause to remove their rights and add them to the list of Past administrators. For instance, GramsJ, Annonnimus, and HaLo2FrEeEk have not been active in over a year, and they're most likely not going to come back.

If a current admin is semi-active or inactive for less than a year, then they could simply be moved to the inactive list. If a year passes, and their activity has not returned, then it makes no sense to have an admin keep sysop rights if they aren't being used anymore.

This goes for Patrollers too. There is a huge list of inactive users that still have patroller rights which are not being used. Rosenrot87, Neguy71inok, Loonix, amongst many others are probably not going to return again, it's been over a year that they have been on. Last contribs by any of them was in mid-2012.

Again, not to derail this thread, but demoting a staff member just because they have not been incredibly active in the past few months is not a cause for removal of their rights. The reason for removal should be because of conduct, resignation, or obvious absence (1 year absence).