Board Thread:Consensus track/@comment-7153552-20130619222547/@comment-4787430-20130621195952

PsijicThief wrote: Couldn't agree more, thank you TombRaiser (never mentioned it, but I love your name).

How would the individuals be appointed? Is that something to leave up for discussion only after this gets the go-ahead (if it does)?

More than likely, it will follow the same process as voting for patroller. To make sure that there isn't a flood of users wanting to be a forum moderator, only a current moderator or staff member can nominate a user to be a moderator. Since it is the forum, the voting should probably be held on the forum. The voting process usually lasts from 7-10 days. I'll open up the "Community Announcements" forum later on for that process if this goes through.

For now, you might have a good idea of who would make a good forum moderator, since I know you are one of the most very active members of the forum. I'm going to assume you will want to be one of our forum moderators? If so, I see no reason why you wouldn't be selected as one. If you know anyone else that is already actively acting as a moderator who would be interested in joining this group, let them know about this consensus being held, so they can leave their feedback.

If this goes through, then the 2-5 most qualified users will be named moderator by an admin. After that, the voting process will need to be used.

PsijicThief wrote: Is there an administrative option for the forums to edit someone else's post? For example, if I posted something that counted as a valid question and/or answer to something but it had vulgarities in it of some sort or another, could a forum moderator edit out the one or two words in question instead of deleting the whole post or thread? Some things are pertinent and might not need the whole thing taken away. Random thought I had, sorry.

As far as I know, only admins can edit someone else's posts. I'm not sure if a patroller can edit other users posts or not, but they may be able to since they are also part of a custodian group. If that was the case and moderators needed to remove offensive content without deleting the post, then user rights would need to be changed for the forum moderator group.