This is a proposal for a community-based procedure for desysopping problem administrators. Dmcdevit has given Matt57 permission to change this proposal as he wants to. If you want to edit it, please move it forward, not backward.
Here are the basic reasons why a system like this is needed:
- Sysops may change their behavior with the community after they get op'd, i.e. its possible that their behavior deteriorates enough to irritate and effect the community negatively, however its not enough to justify for an RfC or an emergency de-op
- Every good legitimate sysop should be able to survive another RfA and pass through it, like they did when they first qualified for it. However, not every OP needs to go through one.
Procedure:
- A stage 1 is completed when at least 4 administrators have filed for a case to request an RfA for another admin
- Only administrators who have been admins more than 2 months can participate in a Stage 1 request
In order to keep the RfA's as few as possible:
- Of all the admins who are qualified for Stage 1, only the one with the most number of votes will go through another RfA. This qualifies for stage 2.
- Another RfA can only be done once every 2 weeks.
- An admin can go through an RfA not more than once every 6 months
- Stage 3: These RfA results are decided just like for a regular RfA (where common community user's can oppose or support an admin). To deal with sock puppets: Needless to say, any user with no significant edits and whose account is not older than 2 weeks is not eligible to 'vote'. Ineligible votes will be deleted.