Haven’t looked into this, but I thought there was a setting that allows moderators to create new categories. I suppose they could change settings then as well.
Thanks, turning that on did allow the moderators to edit categories as we need them to.
However it’s preferred that they aren’t able to create new categories. If there’s a way to keep these things separate, and honestly I thought this would be more clearly documented, I would prefer that.
Well, you could make that a feature request. Until then I suppose you tell your moderators to stay away from creating new categories. As long as you don’t have dozens of moderators, that should be doable.
Er… you’re here for about two months now and if you look around, you’d notice Discourse is fully in active development. If there something you don’t like, tell about it, make suggestions, submit PRs, etc.
An admin should not make someone a moderator if no trust exists with that someone. Through experience, I understand this includes heads of clans/factions in a game. They became the leader for a sound reason, in theory.
One of those “common sense” things easily applied to most instances.
Allowing moderators to create (and thus to edit) categories is not at all the same as the OP “Allow non-admin to edit category logo, details”.
Even if it was an additional option to “Allow moderators to edit categories” that wouldn’t cut the mustard as you would have to make someone a global moderator to allow them to edit one category.
What is needed is a function analogous to the owner of a group. Owner of a category who can moderate posts and edit category details.
I applaud the presumption that you can trust users, but on the other hand it is always a security risk to give a user more permissions than he needs.