User blog:Jiskran/Looking at the "Bureaucrat Demotion" vote

Reading this now resolved issue among the items of "Site administration", I was wondering, might it not perhaps be a thought if the majority of administrators being against a demotion were to stay that demotion for say one week, allowing time for it to be determined whether this was really the will of the majority of users, or simply a personal campaign conducted by someone with a grudge? A bureaucrat could, in a week, look into the matter, take soundings, and perhaps discuss with users the nature of grievances, to see whether the wiki as whole would be served by the demotion. They would then be in a position to place potentially relevant information, which might change voting patterns, before the body of the wiki ahead of the deadline, and thus make a reconsideration possible.

This is not to say that normal users' input is of less value than administrators, merely that administrators have, almost by very definition, a greater investment of time in the wiki, and are liable to be more concerned with the long-term future of the project, and hopefully less with any temporary, personal irritation they may justifably feel.

In this context, and by the term administrator I do not mean myself - I am such only temporarily and for editorial purposes.