Hi, I just wanted to confirm the default permissions behaviour in Discourse. Can moderators delete user accounts, or is that restricted to admins only? I just wanted to confirm there are no edge cases (for example users with zero posts). We are running Discourse 2026.3.0-latest with only officia…

Thanks - category moderators ended up being the right solution for my use case. On my forum I set this up as follows: I created a group @mods. I enabled the site setting enable category group moderation. I assigned that group as the moderator group for each category. This gives the moderators th…

What can moderators do to users?

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) March 11, 2026, 7:29am 2

Why not try?

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