Can someone help me understand difference between Moderator and Staff?

The “Staff” includes moderators and administrators. “Moderator” includes only moderators.

Okay makes sense! And difference between Whisper and Staff notes? Are they the same thing?

Well, they are almost the opposite: Whispers are private conversations only visible to staff: [Screenshot 2023-11-28 at 1.39.14 PM] Staff Notices are shown to everyone: [Screenshot 2023-11-28 at 1.35.26 PM] The screenshots don’t really tell the story. These are what staff (or whoever is configured to see Whispers) sees, but the ordinary user is only going to see Staff Notices.

By Staff notes, are you referring to this plugin: Discourse User Notes? Whispers are notes that you can add to posts. They are private conversations. You might be interested in the whispers allowed groups setting to control what group can create/see those private communications. Staff notes from the plugin allow the Staff to add notes to a specific user. You can look at the plugin topic for more details.

Yes, this gave me better understanding. What about the Staff Colour for a post, what’s the use of that?

Staff color adds a background color to your post like GDPR outside of the EU - #37 Maybe Discourse Moderation Guide also answers some of your questions

[image] evens_tailors.0d: What about the Staff Colour for a post, what’s the use of that? To make a post stand out, it is highlighted with a background color.

Moderators and Admins are staff, but I don’t think Category Moderators are staff. [image] Trust Level Permissions Reference Using Discourse bookmark This reference aims to be a comprehensive list of Discourse features, marked by Trust Level, and including the relevant admin settings which influence them. Trust level names TL0: New (newuser) TL1: Basic TL2: Member TL3: Regular TL4: Inner Circle Trust Level Grid - Defaults TL = Trust Level dependant gear = Can be enabled or adjusted by an admin setting gear TL0 TL1 TL2 TL3 TL4 Category Moderator Moderator [1] Post Replies white_check_mark …

I’m confused, could you tell me difference between Moderator and Category moderator?

Moderators vs Staff

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Lilly (Lillian ) November 29, 2023, 12:07am 10

Moderators and Admins are staff, but I don’t think Category Moderators are staff.

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