User blog comment:Epicnail/Regarding future promotions/@comment-4328703-20150905150306/@comment-24078641-20150905174309

There's way more to admin than making decisions and blocking people. That would be a huge crutch to someone who might have good coding experience (an example) to have to request chatmoderator (a position they may or may not be interested in) and wait 6 months after that to make another request, but I see what you mean.

My point with being admin on another wiki is that they'd have familiarity with it and know how to use admin rights, which is important to know if you're admin.

I know a lot of users will request admin, but I doubt the community would vote anyone straight to admin except for very deserving users. The requirements already ask for a lot from applicants. Your suggestion is ok but I don't see any unworthy candidates making that big of a jump the way things are set up currently. Maybe a good way to ensure we don't see any dumb admin requests is to have a 6 month wait to all denied applicants to make so they'd think stuff throught before they make a request.