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To: Silly
There are two levels of moderators. With regard only to user management, the low level moderators are empowered only to suspend. This is what has been termed the "sidebar moderator"; a holdover from the time when the only moderator function available was to remove articles from Breaking News. (But not to pull(make inaccessible) articles.)

When Jim left for TX (August?) I expanded the powers of the sidebar moderator to include the new ability to suspend accounts, and the ability to remove comments and articles. As well as the sidebar duties. I created a higher level moderator function for banning and especially nuking, this was called "admin moderator". And I created one special class of moderator now called "lead moderator"; this person, and there is only one, is basically the foreman, and has access to the moderator logs and their names. (Moderators are anonymous even to each other.)

2,768 posted on 12/01/2001 4:10:00 PM PST by John Robinson
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To: John Robinson
Can I be the 'monkeyshine moderator' with the power to insert monkeyshines in between people's posts?
2,782 posted on 12/02/2001 12:18:39 AM PST by monkeyshine
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