I’m warming up to the idea of trying to do this entirely with categories and groups. That will entail:
- nesting categories more deeply (since I’m stealing the top level for the multiple forums)
- probably nesting groups
- moderator access tied to categories
- possibly tethering trust level to categories as well
I found another open feature request that relates to this:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-specific-moderators/11668