I already told about my story, but in short, I’m being sabotaged by the forum competing with mine, and they are always buying someone from my moderation to destroy my forum! First it started with them tracking my log, I asked the people here if there’s a way to make the log visible only to the administration, but there’s no way, in addition to this headache, now I’m having another one, there are corrupted moderators by the competition that are deleting members from my site, can I just let the admin delete members?and it’s no use for me to change moderators… There will always be one that will give in to the enemy, I just need to take those options away from them

Try making them category moderator instead of moderator?

Yeah category moderators are your only option here. [image] [Superceded] Moderation privileges for moderators, category moderators and TL3+ users Site Management Different types of users have different moderation powers in Discourse. The table summarizes who can do what among the main types of power user: Trust level 3, which can be reached automatically or given manually Trust lvel 4, which can only be given manually Moderators, who are ‘staff’ Category moderators who are not staff, but have powers like moderstors but only for the specific categories they moderate Power TL3 TL4 Cat Mod Mod Recategorize topics heavy_check_mark …

[image] Daniela: I asked the people here if there’s a way to make the log visible only to the administration, but there’s no way You can install a plugin and deny moderator access to logs

[image] Linca: You can install a plugin and deny moderator access to logs Which plugin is this? Ouvir content_copy

[image] Daniela: Thanks for replying, where can I put category moderators? :partying_face: :slightly_smiling_face: To set up category moderation: Toggle enable category group moderation in the admin settings Create a group and add the users to it In the Settings page for each category add that group to the In addition to staff, content in this category can also be reviewed by: box Save And then you can remove moderator privileges from everyone and they will no longer be able to access the logs or delete users, etc. :+1:

I suggested earlier that you copy your database to a new server. You could also get your data with a data explorer plugin. No plugin to change moderator rights exists, so you’d need to develop one.

Is there a way to not let moderators delete members?

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HAWK (Hawk) December 2, 2022, 3:00am 3

Yeah category moderators are your only option here.

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