Thread:SamwiseFilmore/@comment-26094355-20160518183557/@comment-25101690-20160519105051

That's plain wrong. Promotions are never decided based on ranks. I think I and Grievous became admins with a few hundred edits only. Promotions happen when the admins can convince a bureaucrat that the candidate is worthy, in terms of reliability and quality of work, but definitely not quantity. Every admin I suggested for promotion (quite a few) did something that really amazed me, such as Handles' contribution stat list and his other work.