User blog comment:Solomus-BlackWing/Power Debate/@comment-1257337-20140726082956/@comment-1620907-20140727070958

The Wikia Staff didn't take your admin status, they aren't that bad mannered. It's understandable why you're not fussed in any case so it's not a real issue.

Ugh yeah, the whole promotion Total was handed poorly on both sides. It wasn't a bad idea, it just ended up being the wrong place, at the wrong time and done in a way that pissed a lot of people off.

I agree, you never did anything that was detrimental to the site and were generally friendly. However, banning people for trivial reasons was seen to be in bad taste after Total had been called out for doing it excessively. So it's probably why people ended up bitter over that.

As for the number of admins in relation to the size of the community. At the current time the active user-base has been staying at a steady mean of 70 per month. Of that, approximately 40 are active editors (ie. more than five edits per month). This is more than double the numbers from when the 2009 Era Admins were first appointed (all of which are inactive) and a 63% increase from when the 2011 Era Admins were appointed. The 2013 Era Admins helped alleviate the pressure but the build up from long periods of absence taken by Total and Lither left a lot to be cleaned up. Taking the idealistic numbers of the 7 active admins it's a healthy User to Admin ratio of 9:1.

Stats aside, if we're arguing quality over quantity, Necrus is by far the highest quality admin we've had. Period. He's done more in three months than other admins have done in three years. Coding and design are practically his life. I'm a competent coder on par with BB and I know a lot of the niche tricks, but when I was the ONLY active admin who could do useful clean up and maintenance it did start to wear. I often found myself consulting Necrus over such problems. So, if your reasoning to credit Total for his part in advising you, then you should have credited Necrus in a similar capacity for providing countless template fixes, high quality backgrounds and CSS changes that were implemented by the admins while he didn't constantly harass them. Appointing Necrus as an admin effectively cut out the middle man.

I feel this issue finally reached Wikia Staff levels because BB gave Total back his bureau (despite as you said yourself, you weren't going to promote him without Supah's say so) and Total then refused to give it up. It's unfair to pin blame on you since you did a pretty decent job all round and were never really at fault, but you've got to see why people would be royally pissed off at Total and BB.