# Can't revoke moderator status

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-revoke-moderator-status/51799
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [2016 年 10 月 20 日午後 4:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-revoke-moderator-status/51799 "2016-10-20T16:58:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Alex\_Bamford](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alex_bamford/32/121469_2.png) [@Alex\_Bamford](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alex_Bamford)
#### Post date: [2016 年 10 月 20 日午後 4:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-revoke-moderator-status/51799/1 "2016-10-20T16:58:52Z")

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I need to change up my admins/moderators.

But I am getting an error when I hit “revoke moderator”

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/5/d/5d1e67aac79bc27422549f5c5c8a502726a9663d.png)

Any ideas?

Thanks

Alex

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### Author: ![SouperC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/souperc/32/62875_2.png) [@SouperC](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SouperC)
#### Post date: [2016 年 10 月 20 日午後 7:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-revoke-moderator-status/51799/2 "2016-10-20T19:30:52Z")

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Have you changed the setting “min username length” in your admin panel at all?  
Doing this caused the inverse issue for me. I changed it from the default of 3 to 8. Once I did that, I couldn’t make members mods or admins.

Once I changed it back to 3, I was able to make users mods/admins.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016 年 10 月 21 日午前 12:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-revoke-moderator-status/51799/3 "2016-10-21T00:05:36Z")

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Can you ping us on [team@discourse.org](mailto:team@discourse.org) with the exact modrator you are trying to revoke, we can have a look.

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### Author: ![Alex\_Bamford](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alex_bamford/32/121469_2.png) [@Alex\_Bamford](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alex_Bamford)
#### Post date: [2016 年 10 月 21 日午前 9:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-revoke-moderator-status/51799/4 "2016-10-21T09:33:34Z")

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This actually worked.

Thankyou

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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [2016 年 10 月 21 日午後 1:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-revoke-moderator-status/51799/5 "2016-10-21T13:14:42Z")

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