Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-17623-20141006185456/@comment-1251315-20141010191955

Dantman wrote: "Yes, Wikia can (and has) create a special user group for a wikia that has the 'forumadmin' right. I think the one thing we found forumadmin can't do without sysop right is highlight threads, which is a ticket to fix." ~ Timothy Quievryn That's nonsense information, Timothy is wrong and I know it for a fact. They can create any flag with any requested rights, doesn't mean that the rights will work how they think it will, the system won't register these rights on anyone that isn't a sysop.

forumadmin doesn't give close threads, highlight threads, nor the delete threads and posts rights, neither does it give global post editing rights, as that is tied to rollback flag. You would be giving a flag that does nothing and changes no aspect of the wiki at all and would simply serve as a way to prevent you from giving anyone sysop flags at all, even when there are several users who have stated that another sysop harms nothing and who are probably qualified to be sysops.

I know what I'm talking about here, I've seen Wikia create a forummoderator group for another wiki with the "boardedit", "forum", "forumadmin" and "forumoldedit" rights and, apart from boardedit and forumoldedit, the other rights don't work and would be a waste of time. Creating pointless user groups that do nothing is counter productive and does not improve the wiki, nor solves the problems we actually have.

EDIT: Just confirmed that the forumadmin right does not work the way Wikia claims it does, making a usergroup with that right would achieve zero effect and improve nothing.