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RationalWiki:Requests for user rights

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Welcome to your mother's basement! Here you can ask for autopatrolled, sysop rights, ninja rights, or tech rights.

Please include your reason for requesting the rights. For example, if requesting sysop rights, one could say: "I've been here for bloody ages and you fuckers forgot to give me sysop".

Please also {{ping|user's name}} a mod or tech — otherwise, nobody will respond.

Sysop[edit]

Being an active mustard i publicly request this sysop rights. —𝕶𝕾𝕳 🐅 09:59, 15 February 2025 (UTC)
Granted. Carthage (talk) 10:12, 15 February 2025 (UTC)

Tech user privileges[edit]

Please add me to the Tech group. I would like to edit the Interwiki table. I plan to update links to https as needed, to remove dead links, and to add some new ones. I have technical experience running a MediaWiki site for over fifteen years. Insanity (talk) 18:51, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

@Spud @DuceMoosolini @KarmaPolice @Techpriest @ApooftGnegiol @Flandres Pinging some active mods. Insanity (talk) 19:07, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

You haven't been here for nearly long enough for me to feel comfortable with that suggestion. Plutocow (talk) 19:01, 17 February 2025 (UTC)
Would you feel comfortable with an understanding that I would limit my tech work to the Interwiki only? Insanity (talk) 19:10, 17 February 2025 (UTC)
Since it's a community vote, I won’t support it (so my vote is NO). This user has made very few mainspace edits and has mostly engaged in discussions or disagreements that sideline facts with other users. Moreover, we already have enough Techs to fix such issues. You can raise those issues in Tech support. — Lunar|  19:42, 17 February 2025 (UTC)
You've been here less than two weeks, which would seem to be far less time than needed to gain widespread trust from fellow-sysops for giving tech rights. The reason that we now have votes for tech rights was part of the fallout from past abuse of the rights. Some types of tech (and mod) misbehavior can be harder to detect than ordinary sysop behavior, hence it was decided that there should be community buy-in on giving people tech rights. Alternatively to tech rights, if you have a limited set of changes that you want to see done, you can post that on RationalWiki:Technical support, and one of the techs or mods might do the changes. Bongolian (talk) 19:57, 17 February 2025 (UTC)
Gonna echo Pluto and Bongolian here. -- Techpriest (talk) 22:05, 17 February 2025 (UTC)
I am saying Nay on default. The simple lack of time elapsed scores that, regardless of how sound the user has shown themselves. The only couple of exceptions I would give on this would be a) if they had successfully convinced the mob they were a returnee [thus not new] or b) I knew them personally and was vouching for them. 'Nothing personal, just business'. KarmaPolice (talk) 23:04, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

Very well then. I withdraw my request. It looks like ApooftGnegiol‎ is taking an interest in the job. Insanity (talk) 00:40, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

Requesting[edit]

Hi ho. I'd like to request sysop user rights. These seem to be fairly easy to qualify for from what I've observed. I promise not to knowingly abuse them. Ifordetail (talk) 13:45, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Seems like you were edit-warring with @Antares on the Effective altruism and LessWrong pages just last week. I'd like to see a longer record of productive contributions. If Antares disagrees with me, then I'll change my mind, but right now my answer is "not yet". Pizza SLICE.gifDuceMoosoliniYour friendly RW dictator moderator 16:34, 1 March 2025 (UTC)
That was more of a misunderstanding. I just immediately clicked back on edit after I was done with my last writeup, and apparently, your Wiki does not show edit conflicts or notify you of recent reverts. But I'd understand if you'd want me to get used to your interface more before trusting me I guess. Ifordetail (talk) 13:16, 2 March 2025 (UTC)