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==What happens when they get power==

Let's say these power hunting users go up for [[WP:RFA|RFA]] and suceedsucceed, they gain the supposed power that they have only edited wikipedia for. These users will possibly now just scrap writing articles and improving them also scrapping any other kind of encyclopedia based work, and obviously they will use the tools and only the tools!

::Eventually they will get bored of even being on wikipedia, bearing in mind they weren't bored when they were busy writing articles and improving everything to get the admin job, and most of these kinds of users will just abandon their admin account. Just for some [[WP:VAND|vandal]] to compromise it 2 years later and wreck havoc with these admin tools. Which is one reason you shouldn't just edit to look for power. However under some cases this doesn't happen, and this situation is a rare one.

==What happens when they don't get power...==

Let's say an average user who is hunting for power on Wikipedia goes up for [[WP:RFA|RFA]] and fails the process. Problems can then arise; these power-hunting users may get angry that they have failed the RFA process (even though they may not at all be fit to be an admin). They may think Wikipedia has something against them and they may [[WP:COOL|Stay cool]] -– or worse, they may explode on the users who have opposed them in the RFA. This can lead to months and months of trouble, resulting in them never becoming an admin anyway. This would be yet another reason why one shouldn't use Wikipedia to get power and attention.

==Are all admins looking for power then?==