# Help a new moderator understand Discourse?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-a-new-moderator-understand-discourse/101348
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 5, 2018, 9:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-a-new-moderator-understand-discourse/101348 "2018-11-05T21:14:14Z")
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### 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: [November 5, 2018, 9:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-a-new-moderator-understand-discourse/101348/3 "2018-11-05T21:20:37Z")

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Yeah look for the admin wrench, and use those menu items and areas to do “admin”-y things. The difficulty here is that you tried to use the public facing user directory for an admin task 😉

Also see [Discourse Moderation Guide](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-moderation-guide/63116) – does that still need updating @jomaxro?

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