Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-25075055-20140410195636/@comment-25075055-20140419203025

Kasan94 wrote: 3.: I think we should try and give this power only to the sysops to start with, then see how that goes for them, and if it's to much for them to handle, then remove the power from them. Then give the power to the still remaining rollbacks. And then follow the same steps as with the sysops. If that doesn't work out, then we can make new flags. The point is, the sysops already have the power to close and highlight threads. At the moment, there are very few active sysops who actually want to moderate the forums (max. 3, which is only a small number), so that leaves the number of people with close / highlight powers on threads quite limited and as we know, they're not always around.

The purposes of this thread is to ensure there are additional users with the ability to close and highlight threads (and preferably, the people who can edit and delete anyone's posts). With your suggestion, we might as well do nothing. I do not agree with removing flags whatsoever from sysops, because they're essentially admins: if the sysops can't do it (or more likely, they don't want to do it), then we need people who are quite willing to moderate the forums.

I do not want the forums to end up becoming a cesspool because the only people with the power to do anything about it simply couldn't care about solving the issue at hand.

The predominant thing though is this: regular users should NOT have the ability to remove anyone's posts or threads from the forums. That is something that most people can agree upon.