User blog comment:Sonicrox14/So, You Wanna Be An Admin?!/@comment-1669199-20100514053128

Personally, IDT that edit counts really matter much, although I agree with you when you say that a certain amount of edits should be made in order to grab the Admins' attention towards the user. However, overall attitude and patience would be the deciding factor in my book, because even though contributing to a Wiki is a good thing, you'll have to be very mature and have a great deal of patience in order for anyone to take the idea of a certain person rising to a position of power seriously. However, if a user lacks any of these qualities, then they shouldn't even consider asking to be promoted to positions of responsibility, because of these reasons:

1. Since I'm a user and fellow contributor on this Wiki, I would expect the staff on here to be fair, patient, and even willing to enforce the rules on the Wiki. If I know an Admin who can't be fair with any Users below him/her, and/or doesn't know how to be patient and willing to enforce the rules on a Wiki, then I may not take that person seriously.

2. Another reason I may not take an Admin seriously is if said Admin encourages bad users to misbehave on the Wiki, and even give certain Users special treatment for certain reasons (whether they're related to friendship, or something more complicated). I would expect an Admin not to give certain individuals special treatment on a Wiki, especially one like this, because I would expect to have equal and fair treatment from staff members, just like every contributor who comes to this Wiki would probably expect as well.

In other words, don't think that having most qualities to be a good Admin should give you a chance to be promoted, I think that you'd need all the needed qualities of a good Admin in order to become one yourself, and earning those qualities can be difficult and may take a while to accomplish. If you want to rise up to a higher position on here, then you got to show some backbone on your part and show everyone how mature and responsible that you can really be.