Hi,
Admin status at coltsplayground can be defined in a few ways.
Firstly you have 3 levels of ingame server admins managed by mani admin. The first of those two levels are given to players who come to the playground game servers, enjoy playing and are generally decent people then reg on the forum and contribute. The third level is generally reserved for people who manage the config's of those servers from a .cfg / maplist / mapcycle perspective, that group includes all the red (forum) admins and youme and jimbo who manage a server each.
Lastly the red admins who manage the game servers on 2 different boxes at a server level and the forum and webserver/domain admin. Additionally for the forum management we undertake all sorts of request and try to keep out forum members happy where we can.
To facilitate this there are red admin sections split into a couple of categories which contain subsections to the areas which they govern, it also contains all our shared information when we need access to.
The game admins also have their own section to put up server requests and issues for the tf2 servers.
The lvl1 admins who aren't red have their own sections where appropriate.
So that's us, here's some of the things that you'll find out if you decide to add in that section / user group.
On the positive side : You'll have a private area where you can discuss various issues, such as server issues, request mechanisms, individual player actions, recommend new admins etc,
On the negative side : Users will see a definitive hierarchy structure and some of them wont like it, they'll be suspicious of content they cant see and paranoid that your all discussing them behind their backs. In practice of course this really doesn't happen, most of my opinions of users are formed by watching players on servers and their forum 'tone'. the other thing that might in some circumstances happen is that some of your admins might not be too adept at handling their new "status" and that will need to be managed too, though in practice a short and frank conversation will normally resolve these type of issues.
Hehe sometimes when I think back about these things I wish that I'd put in more thought about something before announcing it so that people don't have 'wild expectations' about what we wanted to achive but ah well, them's is the breaks
BTW the negative look larger than the positives here but in my opinion they really aren't, there's so much more to be said about a group of admins coming together as one
In answer I would say do to both...