The discussion is about moderators’ inability to view bookmarks on other users’ activity pages. jomaxro mentions this limitation, and codinghorror confirms that moderators are not supposed to see bookmarks, citing the code checkin “self or admin.” sam agrees that this is a correct change, as there’s no reason for moderators to access bookmarks. jomaxro questions the reasoning behind hiding bookmarks from moderators, but sam notes that users can be sensitive about this and sees little gain in allowing moderators to view bookmarks. The conversation concludes with jomaxro agreeing that there’s no important use case for moderators to view bookmarks, but suggesting a need for a role between Admin and Moderator with more discussion on what admin powers should be granted.
Continuing the discussion from Responses, Likes Received, Mentions, and Edits have gone missing from other users Activity pages (viewing as moderator):
Didn’t mention it in the last post (sorry), but as a moderator I am also unable to see bookmarks on another user’s profile.
That’s correct, I don’t think moderators are supposed to see bookmarks. It says “self or admin” in the checkin, as well.
OK. That would be a change then, I was able to see bookmarks with the previous user profile page.
Yeah I think it is a correct change, no reason to allow mods to snoop around bookmarks.
OK. No issue with that. I am curious though for the rational behind hiding bookmarks from mods? To me, there is nothing particularly private or personal about my bookmarks, certainly much less private/personal than an email (which mods can get (although that is logged…).
Users get very touchy about this stuff, I agree that I don’t particularly care if people see my bookmarks, but I have seen pretty loud complaints from the imgur community about this.
At the end of the day I see very little gain in allowing moderators to see everyone’s bookmarks.
I don’t think I ever looked at another user’s bookmarks, nor can I think of an important use case, so no argument there.
However, I think this type of thought goes back to this discussion:
I think there needs to be a role in-between Admin and Moderator, but exactly what (current) admin powers should be given is something that needs a lot more discussion…