Staff are people too and if one of them happens to be amazingly dedicated to getting points, then kudos to them! Sounds a bit like kindergarten class in here; admins saw a lot of people complaining about losing ranks due to sleep, so they were like, "Okay, fine, we'll just remove it, then you can't complain about it anymore. Okay, kids, keep playing." ;D
I'm not saying that's the correct thing to do here, or that it's really going to help solve anything, but that just seems like the situation to me. Not this B.S. about some admin/staff being in Top 10. Who cares about that? XD