Thread:Manual talk:FAQ/Just Why Temporarily let everyone assign rights to promote your initial user ?

Please excuse my lapse in case this should be something obvious I'm missing, but for me it just doesn't add up.

Why should anyone want to, even temporarily, let everyone assign rights when the objective is precisely and only to promote one single user, whether he/she is to be rewarded for having earned the merit of being the initial user on a new installation or not?

(This refers to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ # 1.14.3 Temporarily let everyone assign rights to promote your initial user)


 * 1) Isn't it so that giving rights to a user simply involves one activity by someone with sufficient rights to do so?
 * 2) Why does the whole userbase have to become active to perform whatever the author of this question had in mind, in order to do something that will be complete as soon as one person has done it?
 * 3) provided the case meant were that there's only one user on a new installation and that user has insufficient rights -- which would be a handling error doing the installation in the first place -- to, say, promote him/herself to Admin/Bureaucrat, then, seeing as changing a local variable is just as deep an intervention as changing a database record, why does the question (and the answer) propose doing it this way round while even stating already that this way round is most dangerous to system integrity?

Could somebody please state for me what I'm missing?

If I am seeing it correctly, it might (also) help to more clearly state the real objective (and/or scenario) meant than just say "to promote your initial user".

TIA, --217.81.174.189 15:55, 14 September 2011 (UTC)