Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-25075055-20140530123957/@comment-24918432-20140602153743

Speysider wrote: Hi

For the longest time with the newest forums, there have been users with a title called Forum Moderator. However, this is somewhat misleading, because these users don't actually have the power to close threads and are instead granted the rollback flag to remove bad posts: this somewhat defeats the point as it means sysops are still moderating the forums themselves.

This consensus track is proposing to create a custom flag called Forum Moderators, which would grant the ability for such users to actually close, highlight, move and delete threads and posts from the forums themselves, rather than having to ask a sysop to close or highlight threads. In a way, this would offload some of the pressure for a sysop to be required to close / highlight threads.

However, this would result in some user rights having to be updated, so that the forum moderators idea actually works. This would include removing the ability for any user to move threads to another forum or remove threads from view.

Please discuss below. As always: