# Modifying Staff Roles to go beyond Administrator and Moderator?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/modifying-staff-roles-to-go-beyond-administrator-and-moderator/36603
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** moderation
**Created:** [12 בדצמבר,‏ 2015,‏ 2:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/modifying-staff-roles-to-go-beyond-administrator-and-moderator/36603 "2015-12-12T02:56:35Z")
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### Author: ![Sailsman63](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@Sailsman63](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sailsman63)
#### Post date: [12 בדצמבר,‏ 2015,‏ 4:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/modifying-staff-roles-to-go-beyond-administrator-and-moderator/36603/5 "2015-12-12T04:02:33Z")

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Looks like much of what you are asking is possible already.

- “moderator” = discourse TL4
- “super moderator” ~= discourse moderator
- category-specific moderation is in the works.

See [Understanding user statuses, roles, and permissions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/description-of-various-user-states-in-discourse/35171)

Also note that discourse has several flavors of user. See [https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-do-user-trust-levels-do/4924/6](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-do-user-trust-levels-do/4924/6)

“Ban super mods” & “Ban admin” should be just a matter of removing admin status and then doing what is necessary about the user account, not really separate tasks in themselves.

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