Faction Sub-Forum Mod Permissions

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Faction Sub-Forum Mod Permissions - SMGSterlin - 04-10-2013

So here's something I've been thinking about for a while.

Wouldn't it make sense to have the official/shared faction accounts have moderator powers in their own specific faction sub-forum?

For example, the IC| official account is Interspace, so it would have permission for everything in the IC| sub-forum. Same thing with The Liberty Rogues and the LR- sub-forum.

But, the accounts would only have the mod powers for their one sub-forum, nothing else. I know on a forum I was a mod on, I had permission over one specific part of the forums, but that came with other certain special features like being able to see all the IP's used by someone who's posted in my forum, and things like that. I don't know if it's like that here, if it is, I can see how that may be a problem and you may not want so many people having access to that.

If it isn't, however, I think it would be beneficial. It would let the factions structure their forums how they wish, make certain topics stickies, delete certain old and irrelevant threads (or at least move them to a hidden/trash sub-forum), etc.

Discuss.

RE: Faction Sub-Forum Mod Permissions - Echo 7-7 - 04-10-2013

It's been requested and rejected before.

RE: Faction Sub-Forum Mod Permissions - Irwin - 04-10-2013

I don't think it's necessary. I presume the mods are more than willing to do moderation work in any part of the forum where it's required. It'd just create problems if the HC accounts were to get hijacked or if someone who had mod powers or w/e got upset. No need for it.

RE: Faction Sub-Forum Mod Permissions - SMGSterlin - 04-10-2013

(04-10-2013, 12:20 AM)Echo 7-7 Wrote: It's been requested and rejected before.

And what was the reason for the rejection last time?

RE: Faction Sub-Forum Mod Permissions - SummerMcLovin - 04-10-2013

I'd be up for seeing the exact reasoning just to spare the debate a second time.

The insinuation that your brand new mod team can't do it for you though...

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

RE: Faction Sub-Forum Mod Permissions - SMGSterlin - 04-10-2013

It's not that I don't think you CAN, it's that I don't really like any of you and the least I have to talk to you, the better. I don't think you will you mods are far too high and superior to be seen doing anything for us simple peons.

Yeah, let's go with that.

Praise be to the orange lettered demigods.

RE: Faction Sub-Forum Mod Permissions - jammi - 04-10-2013

In a nutshell, there's trouble enough with faction leaders wiping ingame faction assets when they (rage)quit. We don't need an entire faction's forum legacy being irreplaceably deleted as well.

Still, the real reason is that mods are hand picked for certain characteristics. Faction leaders aren't. Ergo, faction leaders won't be given any moderator privileges unless we can trust them beyond reasonable doubt not to misuse them (i.e. they're installed as moderators).

That's why faction section requests go through the forum staff.

Besides, it's a well known fact that most shared accounts can be accessed by the faction leader, the faction leader's dog, the dog's mother, the mother's friend, the friend's housemate and the housemate's cousin. Point being, we don't want to give out mod rights to all and sundry, even if it is inside their faction sandbox.

RE: Faction Sub-Forum Mod Permissions - SummerMcLovin - 04-10-2013

(04-10-2013, 12:35 AM)SMGSterlin Wrote: Praise be to the orange lettered demigods.

Good.

We also appreciate the ritual sacrifice of Flood threads.

And what Jamie said, I guess.

RE: Faction Sub-Forum Mod Permissions - SMGSterlin - 04-10-2013

(04-10-2013, 12:46 AM)jammi Wrote: In a nutshell, there's trouble enough with faction leaders wiping ingame faction assets when they (rage)quit. We don't need an entire faction's forum legacy being irreplaceably deleted as well.

Still, the real reason is that mods are hand picked for certain characteristics. Faction leaders aren't. Ergo, faction leaders won't be given any moderator privileges unless we can trust them beyond reasonable doubt not to misuse them (i.e. they're installed as moderators).

That's why faction section requests go through the forum staff.

Besides, it's a well known fact that most shared accounts can be accessed by the faction leader, the faction leader's dog, the dog's mother, the mother's friend, the friend's housemate and the housemate's cousin. Point being, we don't want to give out mod rights to all and sundry, even if it is inside their faction sandbox.

Well, when faction leaders do rage quit, they could still mess things up pretty bad as it is. They just have to edit each of the main posts to effectively delete whatever it is that was posted. Giving mod permissions wouldn't change that much.

As for the access to the accounts, I agree, they do tend to be too commonly shared. In my opinion, only the 1iC and 2iC of a faction should really have access to them.

RE: Faction Sub-Forum Mod Permissions - jammi - 04-10-2013

(04-10-2013, 01:18 AM)SMGSterlin Wrote: Well, when faction leaders do rage quit, they could still mess things up pretty bad as it is. They just have to edit each of the main posts to effectively delete whatever it is that was posted. Giving mod permissions wouldn't change that much.

As for the access to the accounts, I agree, they do tend to be too commonly shared. In my opinion, only the 1iC and 2iC of a faction should really have access to them.

There's a massive difference between editing out the first post of a thread, and permanently deleting potentially thousands of posts at the click of a button. Once a thread is deleted, it's gone. We can't retrieve it.