I’m juggling a similar thing. We have a Spanish language category with several sub-categories. My Spanish moderators are in a group so they can only manage those categories. The way the “About” page is set up, they are listed six times for every category I’ve granted the group moderation ability for. Not a huge deal but it looks weird.
I recently read that a moderator of a main category inherits moderation privileges for sub categories, so I removed group permissions from the subcategories but left them as moderators for the main “Discussion in Spanish” category.
One of the mods had their first post in a sub category thrown into the main moderator “review” queue. They reported they no longer have the mod-wrench in the sub categories. I impersonated to verify and they have the timeline mod wrench on the main category but not in the subs. They have a mod wrench to “Create Staff Notice” and can edit posts in the main category but not the subs.
The About page looks correct now, but what I read I’ve either misunderstood or isn’t working correctly. I don’t need the Spanish mods to create categories, but I need them to moderate main and sub categories.
I can live with the repeat listings on the About page I suppose - perhaps it might be a better fix to program the About page that lists mods to just not display every sub category if they’re also a mod in the parent category?
Or is there a better way to set them up as category mods that’s not putting them in a group and grant that group mod permission in the category setup? Perhaps I should just give them TL4 and allow them to also submoderate the rest of the board?