Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-25075055-20140410195636/@comment-25075055-20140512183835

Dantman wrote: Can someone identify which individual user rights are being discussed as potentially being added to the rollback group? Rollback is a viral group so I'd like to review how sensitive or dangerous the rights are before putting them on that group. I don't think anyone was suggesting adding more powers to the rollback usergroup, I think it was being suggested to have a whole new group. Basically: As a result, I'm suggesting the following: Apologies if that doesn't make sense, but it's hard to explain this one without acting rude.
 * regular users shouldn't be allowed to remove people's threads and posts, this has been agreed upon already but not acted on by any sysop to Wikia Staff.
 * the ability to close and highlight threads is currently limited to sysops, for which there are very few wishing to use in the forums, hence these rights should be extended to other users, without making them a sysop.
 * these additional powers should not be extended to rollbacks, because half the rollbacks are inactive or simply don't need these specific rights, or have the potential to misuse them.
 * Remove the ability for anyone to remove people's threads and posts (the only people who should have this are sysops and a forum mod flag, or rollbacks if the following rights are added to that flag)
 * The ability for people to close and highlight threads should be extended to a subset of users who are wishing to moderate the forum, but this should not be viral'd to all rollbacks, as mentioned above.