Board Thread:2015 - A Year of Community/@comment-4050367-20150919205107

Hello friends, I'm currently sick so I won't be able to oversee the beginning of Fanon Con tommorow. However, I'm on here because I agreed to do this during the weekend, since it's been something discussed for a while. The topic is potentially demoting a bureaucrat, mainly Roads.

Roads has had a major impact on this community, and his contributions can not be ignored. Roads was more of the administrative bureaucrat, handling the management of the wiki impressively in the earlier years of the community, which I'm sure some users can remember. He was also a good writer, writing one of the most well-known and well-regarded shows on the wiki, Ben 10: Multi Trixes. One of his greatest contributions was the wiki event that recently just had its 13th version of, Fanon Con. Fanon Con is officially 3+ years old now, an amazing feat that could not have happened if Roads had not created the original idea of Fanon Con. He was a creative and authoritative inspiration for many users on here, and it was only until recently that he was #1 on the Leaderboard, having been overthrown by Ulti. Without Roads, this place would not be what is today.

However, there has been a decline in activity. It was assured that when Roads finished Ben 10: Revamped that he would step down, however the questions that were given to me were "How long ago was that assurance made? How long will that exactly be? Is he ever going to finish it?". This is a worthy thing to think about. Should Roads stay a bureaucrat as we wait for him to finish a show that he has shown little activity to? His last edit was December 2, 2014, and this is why it was suggested that Roads have all of his rights removed.

In the larger scheme, Roads has not been active for several months, and his activity before then was rare, shown by the shock and awe reserved for senior members of the wiki when they make an apperance on chat, like Duncan Crook, our founder. There are still two more bureaucrats that would exist after him, and after I am gone, I would presume that another bureaucrat would exist in replacement of me. I know many of you have brought this up, and as we're entering the final months of 2015, I think it's time to discuss this head on.

This thread will serve as a discussion only. On September 26th, a community voting thread will be created, as the community must majority agree on his demotion. On October 3rd, we will know whether this will happen or not. You are free to discuss this question:

Should Roads be demoted now? 