Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-1272757-20131112003859/@comment-2054358-20131122010738

Genesjs wrote: @SeanWheeler: Its highly improbable that all of SNN's Admins would leave all at once of their own volition for any reason. Some Admins are likely to remain to make sure adequate replacements have been found before they themselves retire from the Wiki; I doubt most of the Admins would leave SNN without making sure a clear set of rules and boundaries have been established.

Also, this "tyrant" fear of yours -- I highly doubt Wikia would do much to help with the scenario you are presenting, because Admins who leave the Wiki after a certain period of time aren't likely to gain too much support if the rules we leave here have been unanimously changed without much opposition to such changes, if any are present to begin with. If some of us come back and complain about policy changes which we obviously didn't care about enough to make sure that they would never be implemented while we were here (which, again, can be accomplished by finding adequate replacements to our current Admins when we all eventually retire), then we will only end up coming off as over-entitled brats who are upset that we aren't getting any special treatment just because "we were here first". If anyone makes any changes to the policies, and no one objects to their changes, and we come back and express discontentment with such changes for any reason(s), then all we can do is argue why they should be changed back and hope the new community will see things our way, but in the end we are at their mercy because we left the future of SNN up to them in the first place.

If you're so worried that a "tyrant" may one day show up and try to build power for themselves in our absence, then follow my suggestion and help make sure that we leave behind a group of responsible, respectable individuals so the chances of negative changes to SNN's policies in our absence becomes more unlikely.

I sure hope so too. But other than that crazy armegedden possibility, former admins can come back angry.