User blog comment:Glflegolas/Myths about adminship/@comment-25101089-20160709015812

This is an excellent post, indeed. I'd like to add another myth about admins: we don't choose admins based on whoever does the most edits, and indeed if you are only doing edits for that purpose (rather than to genuinely improve the quality of the mod's wiki) they aren't likely to be very helpful contributions, so please don't do this. (We can tell.)

As Glflegolas said, if we do ever decide that we need new admins, we'll already know who to choose. It's a responsibility, not a reward, and the current admins were promoted because we saw that they would be excellent at handling those responsibilities without the need to be motivated by going on a power trip.