Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-5215338-20150116184514/@comment-3416945-20150117234402

Time Biter wrote: Bullet Francisco wrote:

No. Look at the lapsing rights page, not take a quote from Unleashed. I went inactive, and no one can demote a bureaucrat but Wikia Staff, so I was obligated to demote myself. The lapsing rights rule says nothing about demoting yourself anyways. You recalled incorrectly. I don't think it works that way. Lapsing rights specifies that the user must have been inactive for four months in order for him/her to lose the rights, not demoting yourself in preparation for inactivity. What you and BlueSpeeder did would count as giving up your rights, which is not covered by the lapsing rights rule. Both you and BlueSpeeder have given up your rights and got them back without an RfA, which makes both of you exceptions to the rule.

No. It does work that way.