Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-25075055-20140413133314/@comment-25075055-20140419090312

Snapper2 wrote: Speysider wrote: It might be better to allow rollbacks to do that, but I'm not really comfortable with 20+ rollbacks having the ability to remove people's threads/posts. It's not that I don't trust them, but it just seems like an awful lot of people when very few will really need it. Personally, having an actual forum moderator flag which people can be granted to allow them to close/highlight/delete threads/posts would be safer. You say it's not an issue of trust, but then you raise concerns of comfort and safety. I sense a paradox.

If it's felt that a privilege shouldn't be left to the general populace and that "very few will really need", then limit it to sysops, of which there is ample supply. No need to make a new group just for the one right. We shouldn't be leaving every little thing with the forums to sysops. That just adds an extra pressure to people who may have almost no interest in viewing the forums (plus, while people claim we have plenty, there's only really 7 active sysops [discount Suki and Dantman since the former has no intention of returning and Dantman isn't always here]) when that workload should, in theory, be handed down to a smaller band of users who have the task of moderating the forums.

The fact is, sysops need to be approached to solve a situation and it may take hours before someone appears: by which point, things may have escalated. If we had forum moderators who were around a majority of the time, then personally it would be easier on the sysops and they wouldn't feel a burden of needing to view the forums for rule violations.

While it might be a hassle, in the long run, an extra flag wouldn't go amiss and frankly, there are some people here who I think should have the ability to close / highlight threads, but why should those people be denied just because "only sysops should be allowed to do it" ? Having that forum mod flag, therefore, would allow those deserving people to have those additional powers in the forums, without needing to be a full sysop and have the burden of being a sysop on top of them.

There are positives to having an extra flag, despite what people are saying.

(I just realised this was all posted in the wrong thread -.-)