Board Thread:Petitions/@comment-28083312-20180322210100/@comment-29771477-20180420202349

Regarding Patrik's point about knowing more "newbies": That may seem like a really good point, but if you look deep into each user's contribs you'll see that it's not so black and white. Banana knows, as I said before, basically everyone including the really new people, and some of them he's even started friendships with (I could give examples if you need me to. Patrik has had similar interactions, but has a really, really large list of people who he doesn't know (and who don't know him) who are also partially new people (which I can also provide proof of). It's not 100% Patrik's fault, but it's pretty clear that overall, Patrik just isn't as known on this wiki as Banana is. This isn't a huge point in Banana's favour, but it's significant.

Regarding Banana's comment about being less passive: Again, this might seem like a good point since we don't want to elect a Senior Admin that'll burn out and be unhelpful any time soon. But I think Banana himself is overplaying his so-called "passivity" here; he has done a ginormous amount of (useful) work during his "hiatus" from the wiki, and he used all of his Community Administrator rights to the fullest even when he was on "hiatus". Has he stopped writing WUs? Has he stopped coding? Has he stopped editing? The answer to all of these questions are no. Therefore, I have all the faith in the world that a promotion would only improve and amplify Banana's ability to administrate, not cause him to burn out.