About perks: Being an admin makes you a target of death threats, whackjobs like Daniel Brandt, and continued harassment by people off their rocker without anything to do.
The only thing perky about being an admin is deleting/protecting stuff. And that's only a perk if you enjoy that kind of thing. Well, that is, as long as you're not the target of a malicious RfC at the moment.
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