Yikes! I forgot other people who should be sysoped; user:Someone_else and user:Mkweise. IMO the old way of promoting should be expanded to include nominations by current Admins. And all nominations should be accepted with a single "seconded" by another Admin unless there is somebody (Admin or not) on the list that disagrees. <evil>If and when there is disagreement we can just drop the nomination and not even tell the person that they were nominated.</evil> We can continue to yell and scream whenever a controversial user asks to be an Admin (like we are now) but uncontroversial users who tend to almost always work nicely with others and follow NPOV (like the ones I listed, IMO) should be promoted semi-automatically via nominations by current Admins. But we should tell them /right after/ their accounts are upgraded just so they don't freak-out and think that a developer goofed and made all users Admins. CRY HAVOC! Sorry, I'm feeling particularly Evil (TM) tonight. -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)