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Leader (TL4) is the highest non-staff level one can have. Moderator can do anything related to moderation of forum Admin can tinker with more advanced forum settings.

[image] itsbhanusharma: Admin can tinker with more advanced forum settings In fact, admins can do everything.

[image] tophee: In fact, admins can do everything. :thinking: If the admin #1 (creator of the forum) put “JohnDoe” as admin… can JohnDoe remove the admin’s role to user #1 ?

Good point. The answer is no, unless John Doe also has ssh access to the server because the creator admin has her email in the app.yml which makes it unremovable via the discourse UI. And here is another privilege of the “creator admin”: [image] I entered the wrong admin email address during ini…

It is actually a good question - I thought I was clear on this but am realising I can’t define it and therefore not 100% sure I am clear about Admin vs non-admin … but are there any practical differences between Moderator and TL4? If you want to grant extra rights to members of your community wit…

[image] robmc: Moderator and TL4 ? TL4 is only limited to moderation of posts made by them and others. However, moderators can do much more. Including creation of categories, viewing stats, moving posts etc. There is very less to distinct between both but I think that /admin route is only a…

I think if you give this a read it should answer a lot of questions for you Understanding Discourse Trust Levels The user trust system is a fundamental cornerstone of Discourse. Trust levels are a way of… Sandboxing new users in your community so that they cannot accidentally hurt themse…

[image] robmc: … but are there any practical differences between Moderator and TL4 ? The very high level answer is that TL4s can moderate content. Mods can moderate content and users. TL4 has no visibility of flags etc.

[image] HAWK: The very high level answer is that TL4s can moderate content. Mods can moderate content and users. TL4 has no visibility of flags etc. Thanks for this. I knew a lot of this in principle, but it isn’t until you really put this into practice that you notice the issues and shortco…

[image] robmc: visit the user page and download the main database with personal information from the SSO process including names and email addresses Wait, what? As a moderator, I am not able to download the main database. I can view a user’s email address, which is then logged that I did it, …

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cpradio (cpradio) June 12, 2018, 2:53pm 15

@techapj just resolved the email part

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Trust Level 4 should be allowed to access moderation tab Feature moderation , trust-levels	16	1317	July 26, 2022
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Admin vs Moderator vs leader

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