# Altering Abilities/Permissions for Trust Levels, Groups, and Staff Roles **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Tags:** completed, category-moderators\ **Created:** [2015年六月10日 15:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/altering-abilities-permissions-for-trust-levels-groups-and-staff-roles/29849 "2015-06-10T15:11:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Er00](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/er00/32/42921_2.png) [@Er00](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Er00)\ **Post date:** [2015年六月10日 15:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/altering-abilities-permissions-for-trust-levels-groups-and-staff-roles/29849/1 "2015-06-10T15:11:44Z")
I’ve had a fair long look at the forums and searched but the closest I could find for this was: [https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-group-permissions/19546](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-group-permissions/19546) There was no comment after the initial post by @codinghorror about madness lying down that route. If someone does know of a similar thread I’ve listed, please point me at it and we can continue discussion over there. In the interests of removing ambiguity I’m italicising Discourse terms (_Moderators_, _Admin_, _Staff_) etc. to distinguish from other use of those words. I wondered whether there was any interest in altering the rigidity in permissions and abilities at the moment. I doubt my use case is unique particularly - I admin a forum for a specific game (SkySaga) and we have Community Moderators as well as staff (as in people who work on the game rather than _Admin/Moderators_ in Discourse). I initially made the Community Moderators _Moderators_ but then discovered that this role enabled them to do things that they ought not to do (see IPs, email addresses, ban users, etc.). I reassigned them to _Trust Level 4_ to ensure that they couldn’t accidentally or purposefully do anything more than they ought to do (which is pretty much purely post moderation) however _TL4_ means that they cannot do useful things like using a colour to signify that they are speaking “officially”, deleting individual posts, seeing flags, etc. Perhaps category-specific moderation (which I understand is on the roadmap) will allow for some of these things, as it will reduce _Moderator_ rights to a specific category as I understand it, and therefore may remove some of the more back-end, non-post-specific admin permissions? I understand that fiddling with individual permissions can be tedious, but the ability to alter these at all out of the box would be really useful for me, and I’d be surprised if I’m alone (in fact I was surprised I could only find one other topic that looked similar!). ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [2015年六月10日 19:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/altering-abilities-permissions-for-trust-levels-groups-and-staff-roles/29849/2 "2015-06-10T19:09:56Z")
> [@Er00](#): > > Perhaps category-specific moderation (which I understand is on the roadmap) will allow for some of these things, as it will reduce Moderator rights to a specific category as I understand it, and therefore may remove some of the more back-end, non-post-specific admin permissions? Yes this is the plan, may be a few months. ---
**Author:** ![Michaelakatrina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/michaelakatrina/32/79686_2.png) [@Michaelakatrina](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Michaelakatrina)\ **Post date:** [2018年三月8日 20:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/altering-abilities-permissions-for-trust-levels-groups-and-staff-roles/29849/3 "2018-03-08T20:08:02Z")
@codinghorror, has this been added? ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [2018年三月9日 01:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/altering-abilities-permissions-for-trust-levels-groups-and-staff-roles/29849/4 "2018-03-09T01:11:44Z")
No it has not, it turned out to be supremely difficult. ---
**Author:** ![Michaelakatrina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/michaelakatrina/32/79686_2.png) [@Michaelakatrina](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Michaelakatrina)\ **Post date:** [2018年三月9日 03:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/altering-abilities-permissions-for-trust-levels-groups-and-staff-roles/29849/5 "2018-03-09T03:16:28Z")
Is there anything to mediate this at all? I’m very surprised at how little attention has been paid to the personal information that these positions expose, especially considering I’m relying on volunteers to help run my community. Plus, I can’t seem to hide other areas of the site that I’d like to, such as the Staff area – which, you might imagine, I would like to reserve for my _staff_. Not having much security against bringing these people in is making me question the continued use of this particular community service. I feel I should have more control - no, total control over this. Is there any explanation as to why these oversights have been made other than, _it’s hard_? ---
**Author:** ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\ **Post date:** [2018年三月9日 04:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/altering-abilities-permissions-for-trust-levels-groups-and-staff-roles/29849/6 "2018-03-09T04:35:12Z")
If you don’t want them to be able to do “account level” moderator tasks but only “forum level” moderator tasks, there’s always Trust Level 4. ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [2019年三月5日 03:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/altering-abilities-permissions-for-trust-levels-groups-and-staff-roles/29849/7 "2019-03-05T03:43:07Z")
Category level moderators will finally be possible after @eviltrout’s centralizing of approval UI goes in, which should be relatively soon. ---
**Author:** ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)\ **Post date:** [2019年三月5日 14:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/altering-abilities-permissions-for-trust-levels-groups-and-staff-roles/29849/8 "2019-03-05T14:43:31Z")
Yes - to manage expectations though I will first be merging a new review queue. Once we have made sure all regressions and issues are fixed, I will do a follow up commit to enable category level moderation. The data structures will be in place shortly. The interface to use them is not ready yet. ---
**Author:** ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)\ **Post date:** [2024年二月7日 14:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/altering-abilities-permissions-for-trust-levels-groups-and-staff-roles/29849/9 "2024-02-07T14:19:35Z")
关闭此主题，类别版主现已可用。👍 这是原始的 #Announcements 主题： > [@Category Group Review/Moderation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-group-review-moderation/116478): > > mega There have been many changes to this feature since first released. Check out [Category Moderator Improvements](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-moderator-improvements/158628) for the latest details. In the latest builds of Discourse I’ve recently [merged a feature](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/404b35bd041362bd3d855e95f2bcba5791d16409) that some forums have been asking for some time now, the ability for regular non-staff users of a group to moderate and review content in specific categories. How to Use Enable the enable category group moderation site setting. It’s default to off. The site setting was called enable cate… ---
**Author:** ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)\ **Post date:** [2024年二月7日 14:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/altering-abilities-permissions-for-trust-levels-groups-and-staff-roles/29849/10 "2024-02-07T14:19:38Z")