# Toggle "Admin Voice" or "Mod Voice" **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [March 21, 2014, 7:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/toggle-admin-voice-or-mod-voice/13963 "2014-03-21T07:34:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sapid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@Sapid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sapid)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2014, 7:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/toggle-admin-voice-or-mod-voice/13963/1 "2014-03-21T07:34:38Z")
What I mean by this is that it would be nice to be able to distinguish whether an admin or mod is participating in a conversation as a regular user or in their official capacity. It looks like this sort of functionality is half-way there; I imagine this looking graphically something like the way “Topic Lock” messages or “This topic is now pinned” messages are displayed with a colored background when the mod or admin to denote that this is “Word From On High” as opposed to the opinion of a site user who happens to be a mod. I imagine the UI for this might be some kind of megaphone button that would also tint the background of the post editor. (Or, using font-awesome, fa-bullhorn. Maybe fa-bell or fa-gavel.) ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2014, 8:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/toggle-admin-voice-or-mod-voice/13963/2 "2014-03-21T08:03:42Z")
There was always the intention to allow mods to insert a random message in a topic as a staff member, with the yellow background. We never quite got there, and very few people ask for it. It would be nice though since on [bbs.boingboing.net](http://bbs.boingboing.net) the mods do periodically post in topics to warn everyone that things are going off track – having that in the yellow “hey this is an official message not just me talking to everyone” staff color would definitely be useful since - it would be more visible - it would make it clear that “mod voice” was on ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 5:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/toggle-admin-voice-or-mod-voice/13963/3 "2014-10-07T05:04:36Z")
This feature is now available via the mod wrench on each topic! ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 5:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/toggle-admin-voice-or-mod-voice/13963/4 "2014-10-07T05:04:44Z")
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