Mod permissions and access

[Chaboi_3000]

No, there is currently not a way to alter the permissions, as Jeff said in this topic:

Changings permissions for moderator

No, we have no plans to support fine-grained permissions models, either you are a moderator, or admin and get the standard permissions for those roles. We do plan to add category level moderators though.

Moderators for a specific category is on the roadmap, but not yet implemented.

Add moderator for specific category or subcategory

Hello All, I wanna ask about how to make a moderator only for specific category or subcategory. Thanks in advance.

This is what moderators can do vs, admins:

@sam

I spent a few hours cleaning this up.

After my current checkin moderators are granted ALL of the permissions admins have except for the following:

• Moderators can not change site settings
• Moderators can not change site contents
• Moderators can not customize a site
• Moderators can not view the API key or generate one
• Moderators can not see the “health check” for the server
• Moderators can not “force a browser” refresh
• Moderators can not assign “moderator” status or revoke it.

EVERYTHING else is allowed by moderators, you can read a PM stream of a user, handle flags, view real emails, edit profiles, close/archive and delete topics

Internally we have a bit of a terminology issue I would like us to resolve, when doing permission checks we talk about:

1. The “admins”
2. The group of users that are either “admin” or “moderator”
3. The “moderators”

I have no idea what to call group number 2 but I would really like a singular name we can use in code, cause at the moment its kind of crazy that User#moderator? denotes that group.