Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-25075055-20140413133314/@comment-28861328-20140418224220

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.

More or less this.

Sysops are plentiful and are more than willing to act if a situation develops that require it.

And I really do think its unhealthy to be this worried about who has an ability, be it deletion or whatever. Regular users misusing an ability that they shouldn't have to begin with is one thing. But we don't go around handing out Rollback privileges like candy and sysops are sysops for a reason. There's no reason we can't just leave it to them.

Creating an entirely new usergroup is a hassle and a headache that can easily be avoided by handing those responsibilities over to the groups we already have.