# Moderators cannot view bookmarks on other user's activity pages
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-cannot-view-bookmarks-on-other-users-activity-pages/37349
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [1월 1, 2016, 4:29오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-cannot-view-bookmarks-on-other-users-activity-pages/37349 "2016-01-01T04:29:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [1월 1, 2016, 4:29오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-cannot-view-bookmarks-on-other-users-activity-pages/37349/1 "2016-01-01T04:29:44Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Responses, Likes Received, Mentions, and Edits have gone missing from other users Activity pages (viewing as moderator)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/responses-likes-received-mentions-and-edits-have-gone-missing-from-other-users-activity-pages-viewing-as-moderator/37247/4):
> [@Responses, Likes Received, Mentions, and Edits have gone missing from other users Activity pages (viewing as moderator)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/responses-likes-received-mentions-and-edits-have-gone-missing-from-other-users-activity-pages-viewing-as-moderator/37247/4):
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> Fixed per:
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> [FIX: hide bookmarks tab on other peoples profile (unless self or admin) · discourse/discourse@01281b6 · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/01281b6364d9770f0f8d4df4f7d3f3ed95fd1776)
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> Note, edits only show a list of posts by a user that were edited by a third party, very narrow use case for that tab.
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.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [1월 1, 2016, 4:31오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-cannot-view-bookmarks-on-other-users-activity-pages/37349/2 "2016-01-01T04:31:04Z")
That’s correct, I don’t think moderators are supposed to see bookmarks. It says “self or admin” in the checkin, as well.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [1월 1, 2016, 4:32오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-cannot-view-bookmarks-on-other-users-activity-pages/37349/3 "2016-01-01T04:32:03Z")
OK. That would be a change then, I was able to see bookmarks with the previous user profile page.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [1월 1, 2016, 4:34오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-cannot-view-bookmarks-on-other-users-activity-pages/37349/4 "2016-01-01T04:34:05Z")
Yeah I think it is a correct change, no reason to allow mods to snoop around bookmarks.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [1월 1, 2016, 4:36오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-cannot-view-bookmarks-on-other-users-activity-pages/37349/5 "2016-01-01T04:36:34Z")
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…).
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [1월 1, 2016, 4:38오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-cannot-view-bookmarks-on-other-users-activity-pages/37349/6 "2016-01-01T04:38:30Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [1월 1, 2016, 4:46오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-cannot-view-bookmarks-on-other-users-activity-pages/37349/7 "2016-01-01T04:46:13Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> 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:
> [@Modifying Staff Roles to go beyond Administrator and Moderator?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/modifying-staff-roles-to-go-beyond-administrator-and-moderator/36603):
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> Hello all, We just got discourse for our new website and were wondering if there was a way to create other staff positions with different permissions besides Administrator and Moderator. i.e: Super Moderator; Super Administrator; etc. If not then whatever, not the end of the world, but it would be nice considering the original plan for the forum that we were going to implement.
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…
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [1월 1, 2016, 4:50오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-cannot-view-bookmarks-on-other-users-activity-pages/37349/8 "2016-01-01T04:50:57Z")