User blog comment:NotAnEditor/Define 'Promotion'/@comment-113335-20090808190526

Promotion is anything that grants anybody any form of power that's not gifted to the so-called "commoners", the Users. It doesn't have to be a system ability, it can be site created, such as an enforcer of the COC or a Fireman. For example, when people want to parody items with religious undertones (like Demon Penguin, which was approved), they come to me, because I'm an expert on theology. By defacto, I'm the COC's theology branch. That would be a "promotion", since most people can't do what I do. Sysops, beauracrats, janitors, anything that grants power that users don't have is a promotion. The promotion doesn't have to be written in stone, it can be de facto, meaning it's considered a rule though it is not. For example, it has never been said that I'm the one you come to when proposing controversial articles, but that eventually came to be, since I'm often the one people see for help ("ask TurtleShroom") when they want to help abide and work with the COC. I'm also good at bending around it, as is Explorer. However, it was never said who interprets the COC, it is only written that sysops and beauracrats enforce the COC, de jure (set in stone, in writing). Interpreting it just fell upon folks de facto.

A promotion is any power, wheteher official or not, that a normal user doesn't have. Promoting is giving them that power.

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