If you'd like to apply for rights here, you're in the right place! Please read the information below for how to apply, what requirements you need to meet, and how promotions take place!
Asking for Rights Review which rights you would like to receive below, making sure you understand the requirements of the rights and how to perform its duties. You have to be sure that you'll use these rights in your best way possible in supporting the wiki. If you want to apply to staff just for power, to "look cool", for the colored name tag, or any other reason that prioritizes yourself over actually being dedicated to the job and the wiki, don't. Keep in mind that requests for certain rights can be closed or open, so make sure they are open when you apply. Earning rights means you're a member of Big Nate Comments Section staff, so you must act responsibly, of course.
By applying please keep in mind you are opening yourself up to criticism from the community. All criticism should be and is required to be constructive, but if you are someone who struggles with any form of critique, you should definitely consider this before applying.
While anyone can apply for rights if they meet the requirements, staff withholds the right to go through your contributions, check to see if you're capable of being a staff member, and may decline or approve your entry form.
Now, please continue to the roles section and read our requirements carefully, making sure you meet them if you wish to apply. If you are curious on how promotion or demotion works as well, you can read the sections below!
How Can Staff Members Get Demoted? There are three main methods of how staff members are demoted. Click here to read more!
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1. Self-Demotion
After informing the rest of staff, staff members can choose to remove their rights and "self-demote" because they no longer wish for the staff position.
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2. Through Community Rights Revamps
Much like how the community holds revamps to promote new users, every three months revamps are held regarding whether current staff members should keep their rights or not. The process is the same as listed above in the "Promotion Process" section. Bias or unreasonable opposition is not counted. All opposition must have evidence, must be related to the wiki, and must tie into the staff member's behavior within staff and/or actions on the wiki. If a staff member receives more oppositions than supports, they will be demoted/must self-demote if they are a Bureaucrat.
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3. Staff Decision
Below are two different yet common cases that get staff members demoted. After reading both situations, the protocol that follows them up is how these actions are taken into a vote and later finalized by a "Staff Decision".
- Sometimes people in staff become busy and have to take a break from the wiki: this usually isn't a problem so long as the staff member maintains regular activity before and after their break, and their break doesn't take up a prodigious amount of time. Sometimes, though, a staff member may begin to abuse the right of taking a break to the point where they become more inactive than they are active, and their lack of contributions to the wiki are noticeably abundant and spotted by several different users, including staff.
- Just like anybody else, a staff member's attitude can change over time. If a staff member is noticeably becoming more aggressive towards other users, lacks efficient work ethic in handling their reports, or overall vastly underachieves the appropriate/mandatory skills that make up an essential staff member, then their case will be taken into account by the rest of staff and further discussed.
If any of these happen and spans over two weeks or more, staff will address the growing problem and if agreed on by a majority, a first warning will be issued by an admin to the said staff member. Upon receiving the warning, if the staff member continues showing no signs of progression for another two weeks or lacks effort in correcting their flaw as they are insisted to do, they will be issued a final warning by an admin. This warning gives the staff member an extra 7 days to correct the issue, and if they fail to do so, the rest of staff will conclude a demotion that does not involve revamps. The staff member will lose their title and user rights, and will not be able to handle reports or act as a staff member anymore. If they ever want to obtain their status again, they will have to apply for their position once it opens up to the public.
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