Community maintainers and moderators

[marta]

We've been having some conversations about how to avoid a co-maintainer removing other maintainers. As part of that, we are looking to expand the rights of community moderators - so that maintainers can appoint moderators to help them with a community, instead of co-maintainers. What do you think a moderator should be able to do in a community?

Poll Should moderators be able to:

Comments

[teacoat]

I think the ideal situation would be maintainers being able to assign certain duties to different moderators. If it's a large, heavy-traffic community, some maintainers may not trust their moderators with too much power. I maintain quite a few small comms, however, and in those cases, it's in the maintainers best interest for 'mods' to have as much power as possible, since there's relatively little damage they can do.

This probably is not feasible, but if it is I think it would be the best idea.

[crackpig]

I agree with this. Maximum abilities should be possible, but only at discression of boss.

[justhuman]

Yes - a Manage Moderator's Page that allowed the maintainer to assign duties.

For instance in one community I maintain, one moderator's job is to maintain and update the journal style and I would like to block the other moderators from changing it.

[harrywells]

+1