Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4832646-20140607004850/@comment-1196539-20140607224847

. I don't understand what the harm is in leaving them up. How does it harm us as a wiki?

I believe in opportunity. I think if a user is responsible, eloquent, and generally a well-rounded user, but maybe not necessarily the most social or widely-known person on the wiki, he or she should still have the opportunity to make themselves known to staff and move up the ladder. Requests is that opportunity. Making it such that the only way to move up in the wiki is to depend on having the good fortune/blind luck of someone else noticing you and deciding to take action on it isn't self-driven opportunity at all. If anything, it feels like a military state.