Project:Requests/RfC/Proposal to allow bureaucrats revoke sysop

Proposal to allow bureaucrats revoke sysop
I think it would be useful, because giving a permission which is hard to revoke is always problem. You take a high responsibility while giving someone a permission that can have some negative potential and you aren't even able to stop that person, in case of misuse. What do you think? I guess we are big enough to deal with these matters, without asking stewards. Petrb (talk) 20:35, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I support this change, but you should see meta:Talk:Limits to configuration changes, 33879 and 35258. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 21:02, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Support. In fact, users in the sysadmin global group in CentralAuth can already change all userrights. Given that many of them are bureaucrats or otherwise have high permissions on this wiki, this would be a non-issue.--Jasper Deng (talk) 23:36, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose: We are a small(ish) wiki, I see no need or point for this change, There is generally enough people around that can deal with the "mess" till it can be dealt with by someone with the appropriate user rights. Peachey88 (talk) 23:52, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Neutral: with the high proliferation of sysops on this wiki, having the ability for the wiki to police itself is a boon. This wiki has not been and likely never will be very policy-oriented, and forcing your way through red tape to get a steward to desysop seems antithesis to the laissez-faire way the rest of the wiki operates. That said, I don't feel that bcrats actually need the ability to desysop. From what I've seen, myself and other bcrats carefully judge who we hand +sysop to in order to avoid future issues, and I can't think of a single case where a sysop went rogue here on mediawiki.org. The only other use I can think of is to desysop inactive people, which was proposed and withdrawn above. -- Skiz zerz  23:54, 17 June 2012 (UTC)