Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-24014422-20160917145702/@comment-477304-20160923200835

Luma.dash wrote: Myself 123 wrote: I've also noticed that you've changed the advice section on the requests for user rights page. I think you should've discussed some of these changes prior. In particular, I do not believe the first point is needed at all; a user doesn't need to have acquired other rights before nominating themselves for adminship. Due to two reasons:

It may be preferable for a user to attain those rights beforehand, but it shouldn't be a requirement. If a user shows they are capable of handling admin rights they should be eligible for them. They don't have to climb a ladder and we shouldn't view user rights like a hierarchy.
 * First, when you have two rights like Content and Discussion moderation, you cannot just ignore them and move directly to adminship. You must go step by step, and make people see how you handle half of the admin rights
 * Second, most of the written advices are rather restrict and sometimes repeative and discouraging. Only the needed points for rights are still there, but you are free to undo what you see is right.