Moderator Permissions to Modify Guidelines?

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Moderator Permissions to Modify Guidelines?

A discussion is underway regarding the default permissions for moderators to modify the site Guidelines document. John_Lehmann initially inquired about this, wondering if only admins can modify the document by default.

maiki suggested moving the document to a different category, but John_Lehmann questioned why this would make it more accessible to staff. maiki clarified that her initial response was based on the assumption that John_Lehmann was a normal user, but later realized that he is an admin.

John_Lehmann confirmed that his moderators cannot modify the document, and John_Lehmann impersonated a moderator to verify this. Meteor0id suggested that turning the document into a wiki, editing it, and then converting it back to a regular post might be a possible workaround.

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Is it the case that by default only admins can modify the site Guidelines document? This is what my mod is telling me.

If so, is there a way to change this so mods can modify it?

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To make it simple, as I doubt it will get modified often, make a copy available to them to change, then you copy/paste back to its home?

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I’m not sure, but the Guidelines is a topic created in the Staff category. I think it can be moved to another category, one where mods can change it. You can try it out. :slight_smile:

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But why, would moving it out of the staff category make it more accessible to the staff? Are staff not allowed to modify posts in staff?

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I thought you were a normal user, and a mod was telling you this, in which case the only way for a non-staff user to edit the guidelines might be to move it.

In case you are a staff member expecting all staff members the ability to edit the guidelines, that is reasonable and how it works. Perhaps there is a bug, or perhaps a different setting at work (such as edit timeouts; I don’t have mods, I don’t know how their “powers” work, per se).

I would expect admins and mods to be able to edit the document.

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Yep sorryI was unclear.

I am admin, and my mods are telling me they can’t modify the doc. Maybe I’ll try to impersonate to make sure.

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And now I have confirmed it – I impersonated my moderator and sure enough, there’s no pencil icon to modify the guidelines. Is this because system created it? How can I relax this?

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Did you find a way?

Very weird indeed thatmoderators can see a “press here to edit” link that takes them to the actual post, but can not edit the actual post.

It looks like you could circomvent that by turning it into a wiki, editing it and turning it into a regular post again but I haven’t tried that.