User blog comment:EmpyreanSmoke/Bureaucrat/@comment-778071-20141118052010/@comment-778071-20141118054017

I am mildly annoyed that you have gone to Wikia staff again to request for additional rights. Wikia staff are more broadly concerned with multiple different Wikis, so they don't have all the details of what's going on at the ground level. If you tell them that there aren't any active bureaucrats, they'll take your word for it and tell you to get community approval. It's standard procedure; and they don't have time to check the nitty-gritty and see if it's actually true. It was somewhat disingenuous of you to claim my inactivity - the straightforward thing to do would have been to simply leave a message on my talk page ("Are you active? Could you promote me?" - that sort of thing) rather than go straight to Wikia staff, which was how you got your sysop tools without anyone really taking a close look at your contributions at the time. But, fair, not a big deal - I don't have the luxury of being as active as I would like to be so perhaps it's my fault. In the future though, etiquette requires that you check if someone is inactive before claiming it on their behalf.