Note: I go into this making a note that I am a bit nit-picky, and this is less me making a suggestion and more of me bringing up a topic that probably needs to be brought up.
Tl;dr, absent admins allow idle interloping. AAAII if you will.
I know it sounds like a bit of a petty qualm, but I've noticed that there are a lot of admin applications (And admins) from people who are rarely ever on. Which, at first glance, isn't much of a problem, but can be if you take a closer look.
If a non-admin is rarely ever on, and applies for adminship; from what I've seen at least, chances are they'd rather be an admin than a player.
And, as Jer made fairly clear in the admin guidelines, isn't a good thing. Because then people just associate you with a ban-hammer. And I want your discussion and opinions on that.
On another note, there are a lot of.. Very absent admins. Those who are rarely ever on, or take LONG breaks before coming back. And, just my personal opinion, these admins should be put back to the Trial-Admin state. Because things change on VORE. Things change a lot. The player-base becomes different, and I've witnessed firsthand what's acceptable become different. Things become problems and thus the rules on them are reinforced, and some things become less of a problem, and thus the strictness of those rules are lowered.
The rules are not set in stone, and can change; as we all know.
My point here being: With how often the server changes and shifts, in both rules, admins, and player-base, shouldn't it be necessary that an admin who's been away for some time to be put in the back-seat to have a glance at how things have adjusted?
I am by no means going "ADMUNS HAVE UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH CAUSE THEM TO NEED TO LEAVE FOR SOME TIME NEED TO STRIP THEM OF RANK"
But rather just that, when I took my.. Ehh, 4-ish month break from VORE, I was confused when I came back, because it had changed quite a bit. Not for the better or the worse, but things were different to the way they had been. I also want your discussions and opinion on this.
And a last note, if you think I am just getting overworked about what amounts to a small problem, or just being whiny, please tell me. Preferably over PM. Because if that's so, I really would like to know. I know that I can see problems as bigger than they are sometime.