Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment--20160428211300/@comment-1251315-20160429171752

NeedleJizo wrote: I noticed that my flag has changed.

Forgive me if I misunderstand, but your proposal is to basically get rid of the Forum Operator position (which I currently hold) and distribute those right among the current Forum Moderators (which you term "Discussions Moderator")? The change was already done, this discussion is about gathering thoughts for Wikia to progress further on this issue. Wikia doesn't really want custom user groups any more as it messes up their plans for standardising permissions.

The forummod group that the forum moderators had was actually a custom user group, because there was no forum moderator group in existence when they were made, but they made one a few months later, which had the same rights as our custom forummod group, with the addition of notifyeveryone (ie highlighting threads). However, notifyeveryone should not be devolved to so many users and Dantman gave a good reason as to why notifyeveryone was a forum op (and by default sysop) right here: User talk:Sarutobii2

The rights that were on forum ops (the ones that forum mods didn't have) would certainly not get distributed to disc. mods, as the rights forum ops had were blocking, highlighting and deleting threads, which are not things that every forum mod needs. My suggestion is that we appoint a sysop for just forum-only reasons and keep discussion mods like the old forummod group (which is essentially disc. mods, but without notifyeveryone included, which can be removed easily).

However, because sysop includes many other user rights beyond forum based rights, the appointed user would need to be someone who edits in all aspects of the site, since we no longer have the ability to use custom user groups like we did before. Therefore, the appointed person would need to have trust with the community and be active in all parts of the wiki.

The tags haven't been updated since we don't know whether the changes that were made will be reverted or not. Knowing Wikia, the way things are now will be kept and they won't revert it.