Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-4845243-20150126004431/@comment-7855039-20150127205513

eh, meh

first let's agree this isn't really that important

next, it seems that this moderator position involves both social/chatmoderating skills, as decisions will be needed whether to keep/delete a certain thread. However, this brings up a question. will moderators have an authority that users should listen to? such as how in chat if a cm tells a user to stop, that user should. now, cms don't actually have a physical listed "right" to tell people to stop doing things in chat, however they are allowed to and they should do it to prevent bad behavior in chat. cms just kinda have an authority to do things, where the actual only listed power they have are kicking and banning users. so, will moderators have this authority too? if they say to stop doing something, should people listen? or will this user group be more pertained to doing physical things, such as moving threads/highlighting. which transitions well into my next point,

it seems this moderator position also involved editing/patroller/rollback skills, such as ordering threads, highlighting, closing/restoring stuff, etc.

So, if it is agreed upon that moderators will have this authority to tell users to stop doing things in the forum and in message walls (as well as doing the physical duties listed), then I vote #1: it should go to the RFR format, (as in this case, all active CMs will fit the bill (#4), though they may not have the skills/knowledge/judgement to do the physical duties such as highlighting/moving etc. plus even so there would be some CMs who would be sucky at this [as well as patrollers, for that matter :P])

However: if it is agreed upon that settling disputes/telling users to stop doing something is going to be left up to the admins, like how it is now (kinda) in the walls/forums, and moderators will just have the physical powers listed, then I vote #3, all patrollers (who want it) should get it.

So if an admin could answer my question, that would clarify greatly

thanks

(in the forum and in message wall, i'm referring to for all of this, as those are the two places moderators will have rights)