Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-25428589-20181007231724/@comment-25428589-20181008152103

Hopeless, these are all good questions. I'm happy to lay out how I feel about them, but they're obviously all up for further discussion.

I see the appeal of this being a better way for rollbacks to demonstrate the capacity for adminship as Vngel noted above, but I'm hesitant to go so far as to make this a new prerequisite for being a sysop. Like I've said before, the role would be highly limited in scope to just handling spam/vandalism. While this is a component of adminship, it's possible to be an amazing admin but handle very little vandalism, just due to the time you're online. I wouldn't want a user who is never about when vandalism happens, but who would do a great job at quality control, to be forced to apply for rights they won't use, just so they can reach admin. The rollback right as it currently stands (with the authority to review M4R stories for quality) seems more broadly suited to progression to the responsibilities of an admin, in my opinion. Vandalism/spam handling alone is too specific. I realise this is quite unclear, sorry, just trying to explain how I envision this fitting into the structure of the wiki.

On prerequisites, I don't think I'd necessarily require rollback, but there's so much crossover between rollbacks & people who respond to vandalism quickly, I think it would be rare to find a user who would be a viable candidate for this and wasn't a rollback. I initially envisioned you & Vngel as being prime candidates for this kind of thing, but if someone with a similar track record to, for example, was to apply, I wouldn't be opposed to it (assuming they were more active).

Somewhere between the 2 months required for rollback and the 6 months required for admin would be the sweet spot for minimum activity IMO - experienced users who aren't ready to go for admin just yet. To me, edit count would be less important than a track record of responding quickly to vandalism, but a minimum requirement similar to that of rollback would also be appropriate.

I would think 2 to 5 users, spread across different time zones, would be appropriate.