Forum:Sysop trial periods

Something that recently came to my attention was Sysop activity times. While I can understand a user having to become inactive due to personal reasons, users that choose to stop editing because they don't want to any more can be an issue. For example, Capt. Miller recently made a blog proclaiming he was thniking of going inactive soon, as he sees no reason to continue editing; "Since I'm an admin, reached 10000 edits and crossed off nearly all of my targets, I feel I have fully finished wiki editing, and don't need to edit anymore. This is the same thing that happened to me in Call of Duty: Black Ops II. When I reached the elusive rank of Prestige Master, I barely touch the game anymore, and rarely play it.". Now frankly, admin rights should be given to users that are going to use the wiki to better it, not as some kind of achievement. Furthermore, Miller only received these user rights last month, so him leaving now has hardly made use of said rights, meaning while there's no issue with having multiple sysops, we do now have another inactive one that we may never see again. For this reason, I feel any user that gets given sysop rights should maintain an acceptable level of activeness for a set of time in order to keep said rights, a similar method is used in job placements to prevent people from simply joining for a few days and then leaving. Now this will bear in mind personal predicaments, as well if people are going on holiday and such, so we won' start revoking rights if a user is suddenly rushed into hospital, or has a holiday planned, or is currently doing tests or anything that is an acceptable reason to have lowered acticity. But for instances such as this, where a user is leaving purely because they don't feel there is nothing more to do, which with the release of AW coming up is pretty much the opposite right now, is just a detriment to the wiki, and makes giving out the user rights seemingly pointless if said user has no real desire to stick around and actually use them. 15:43, August 23, 2014 (UTC)

Discussion
Right now, I believe a 2-3 month trial period would be fair to give to new sysops.

Sounds fair to me. I feel that sysop rights should be given out to users who want to help out the wiki over a longer period of time, not users who just want to be recognized for their work. After looking through the inactive sysop list, all of them besides maybe one went inactive much later than they originally got the rights. If this becomes a trend of people getting the rights just because "they deserve them", this list will potentially be much larger. The 2-3 month proposal that Sam stated seems fair, as anybody who states that they will become inactive during this time probably shouldn't have made a RfA in the first place. 16:07, August 23, 2014 (UTC)

Per Anti, and the nominator Sam. Although personal problems may plague the new admin, leaving for as Anti said, "not users who just want to be recognized for their work" is not acceptable. A 2-3 month trial period seems fair. 16:27, August 23, 2014 (UTC)
 * Personal issues will be accounted for should a user let us know. If a user knows they are about to become inactive, then that may put off a nomination until they are free. But if something comes up after the nomination, then as long as they let us know, we can account for that. 16:34, August 23, 2014 (UTC)

What would after the after the trial period? Does the user keep the rights or can they choose to be demoted post-trial? 17:07, August 23, 2014 (UTC)
 * After the trial is up, it means they keep the rights with no issues. With luck this should mean that only the users that make it past those set months they'll stick around, since it seems unlikely a user will ask for user rights, stay for a few months then leave for no good reason. As with the case with Miller, once you've got the rights you need nothing more really, this simply allows us to have a bit more control over the rights, so not only does it show they're right for the rights by passing the RfA, but also shows their actual desire to have the rights by remaining active. 20:22, August 23, 2014 (UTC)

Also, while a lot of our users are protected by grandfather clauses, I feel Miller should have to follow this policy/guideline should it pass. Because, frankly, I do not feel comfortable adding a 1 month old admin to "Inactive". Since a sysop is expected to check the War Room, he should see this notice and it should not come as any shock to him. 20:27, August 23, 2014 (UTC)