User blog comment:Indi26/Admin business/@comment-1874924-20150223042700/@comment-1874924-20150223143231

None of which addresses the problems of lack of transparency or permanent record. Screenshots and chat logs won't suffice because they can be altered without leaving any traces of the alteration, which is why Wikia Central won't accept them as evidence. So yes, how and where decisions are made does matter. Or am I the only one left on this wiki who still cares about good governance practices?

Read the blog again. Indi invited the non-Chat admins to cast their votes on Chat, thereby reinforcing (perhaps unwittingly--I'll give her the benefit of the doubt) the notion that Chat is the only thing on this wiki that matters.

@ Avery: Yes, I did say I was stepping down as admin, and I did just that. Never suggest that I'm not a man of my word. I never said I was stepping down as bureaucrat, which has a much narrower set of powers and responsibilities. (They can't delete pages or edit locked pages, for example.) I might yet do so, but I'm looking to see whether new user are still being given my name as a contact. If they are, then I will step down as b-crat as well.

@ Reddy: Your emphasis on how you made the decision to promote Indi and Mr.. E suggests that you did so unilaterally. Remember when we used to have a public vote on such things, even when everyone assumed it would just be a formality? This illustrates why I sincerely believe, and have believed for years, that your becoming an admin/b-crat is the single worst thing that ever happened to this wiki. Yes, even worse than Sprink leaving. Long story short, power went to your head in a way that it never did with the other admins, at least as far as I can tell. You're supposed to be an admin, not a king.