Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-27547895-20160201202203/@comment-6383956-20160211034819

Killer kev wrote: Grahamburglar wrote: I said all of that before, Maria. But I still don't see the downside in having someone the community selects, especially since you have your education to focus on and that (obviously) needs to come first. The downside of a community selected admin is the high risk of choosing someone unqualified for the position. What if the new admin is someone who doesn't know how to do anything that admins should know how to do? It could cause problems. So, the possibility of a temporary problem outweighs the actual current problem several members of the community feel we currently have?

Because that would be a temporary problem. Not knowing how to do something is fairly easy to rectify -- a person can learn how. In fact, Wikia provides some good articles on how and even has Wikis entirely based around how to build a Wiki so teaching a new admin isn't even something the other admins on this site would have to partake in.

Unless you mean that the community might select someone who doesn't have the temperament to do the job? In which case, I don't know how we'd be any worse off than we already are since that's the biggest problem with Paul.