Allow moderators to create badges

Feature
1

In a bit a similar way as this topic, I was wondering whether it would be possible to allow moderators to create badges.

Moderators can already view all badges and grant them, why shouldn’t they be allowed to create them? I don’t feel this is an action that should require an admin. On the contrary, moderators are here to make sure the community lives and grows, and badges are part of this.
In our forum, admins are mainly here for site administration, not much more. Creating badges isn’t part of the site administration in my opinion.

Necessary changes I see:

  1. New site setting allow moderators to create badges
  2. Allow moderators to create badges and modify the settings of existing badges
2 Likes
2

Badges can completely cripple and destroy your site with poorly written SQL, so they’re squarely in admin territory.

7 Likes
3

I’m coming back to this topic after some time.
On our forum we use quite a few manual badges (i.e granted on demand or for special occasions), and each time we have to ask the admins to create them for the moderators to grant them. It would be much easier for us if moderators could create and edit the badges (category, name, icon, etc) without being able to modify the SQL linked to them.
I can also fully understand that’s just our personal use case and not quite asked for, I was just wondering if it was possible to get such a feature in some way in an other and if it was hard to implement.

4

I totally agree with @codinghorror

As an Community Manager/Admin of several sites, I would not allow the moderators to have that access.

What I can suggest in your case is, either become an admin by request or keep bugging the admins until they figure something out.

Even if discourse make changes to accommodate a request like this, the admin(s) still need to implement it.

Please do understand the critical nature of this.

4 Likes