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Q&A Let moderators grant abilities.

As a moderator on EE, I'd like to be able to grant abilities to specific users. Personally, I think the system is way too restrictive with the edit ability. If someone abuses it, there will be co...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

Question feature-request
#3: Post edited by user avatar Olin Lathrop‭ · 2023-07-27T21:01:31Z (over 1 year ago)
  • As a moderator on EE, I'd like to be able to grant abilities to specific users.
  • Personally, I think the system is way too restrictive with the edit ability. If someone abuses it, there will be consequences. A history is kept, and edits can be easily rolled back.
  • Suppose an ordinary user decides to clean things up and suggest a few edits. After just a few of these, I can see there isn't going to be a problem. In addition, I've seen other actions by this user, perhaps also on other platforms, and I'm reasonably confident they aren't going to vandalize the place.
  • In a case as above, I'd rather grant the edit ability than to keep approving suggested edits. That's easier on me, and would be a better experience for the user too.
  • I looked around and found no way to do this. I'm therefore asking for a feature to let moderators grant selected abilities to individual users.
  • <blockquote>You can. On the user's profile, click "Moderator tools" and then choose "privileges" from there.</blockquote>
  • I don't see anything like that. Here's what it looks like when I click on <i>Moderator Tools</i>:
  • <img src="https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/cbfouf1elwkf3wqj6jppwz5tdwmf">
  • Maybe it's only available to administrators, not moderators?
  • As a moderator on EE, I'd like to be able to grant abilities to specific users.
  • Personally, I think the system is way too restrictive with the edit ability. If someone abuses it, there will be consequences. A history is kept, and edits can be easily rolled back.
  • Suppose an ordinary user decides to clean things up and suggest a few edits. After just a few of these, I can see there isn't going to be a problem. In addition, I've seen other actions by this user, perhaps also on other platforms, and I'm reasonably confident they aren't going to vandalize the place.
  • In a case as above, I'd rather grant the edit ability than to keep approving suggested edits. That's easier on me, and would be a better experience for the user too.
  • I looked around and found no way to do this. I'm therefore asking for a feature to let moderators grant selected abilities to individual users.
  • <blockquote>You can. On the user's profile, click "Moderator tools" and then choose "privileges" from there.</blockquote>
  • I don't see anything like that. Here's what it looks like when I click on <i>Moderator Tools</i>:
  • <img src="https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/cbfouf1elwkf3wqj6jppwz5tdwmf">
  • Maybe it's only available to administrators, not moderators?
  • <blockquote>You've clicked "moderator tools" from the main page or from the sidebar on another page. You need to click on the "moderator tools" button on a user's profile, as Monica said.</blockquote>
  • Ah, now I see it. I was so used to clicking on <i>Moderator Tools</i> on the right that I never noticed there was a separate button for that in each user profile. I did look at the user profile and noticed the button on the right was not there, so thought that moderator tools weren't available from a user profile.
  • Anyway, that worked. The ability has been granted to the user who made a lot of good edits lately.
#2: Post edited by user avatar Olin Lathrop‭ · 2023-07-27T20:40:39Z (over 1 year ago)
  • As a moderator on EE, I'd like to be able to grant abilities to specific users.
  • Personally, I think the system is way too restrictive with the edit ability. If someone abuses it, there will be consequences. A history is kept, and edits can be easily rolled back.
  • Suppose an ordinary user decides to clean things up and suggest a few edits. After just a few of these, I can see there isn't going to be a problem. In addition, I've seen other actions by this user, perhaps also on other platforms, and I'm reasonably confident they aren't going to vandalize the place.
  • In a case as above, I'd rather grant the edit ability than to keep approving suggested edits. That's easier on me, and would be a better experience for the user too.
  • I looked around and found no way to do this. I'm therefore asking for a feature to let moderators grant selected abilities to individual users.
  • As a moderator on EE, I'd like to be able to grant abilities to specific users.
  • Personally, I think the system is way too restrictive with the edit ability. If someone abuses it, there will be consequences. A history is kept, and edits can be easily rolled back.
  • Suppose an ordinary user decides to clean things up and suggest a few edits. After just a few of these, I can see there isn't going to be a problem. In addition, I've seen other actions by this user, perhaps also on other platforms, and I'm reasonably confident they aren't going to vandalize the place.
  • In a case as above, I'd rather grant the edit ability than to keep approving suggested edits. That's easier on me, and would be a better experience for the user too.
  • I looked around and found no way to do this. I'm therefore asking for a feature to let moderators grant selected abilities to individual users.
  • <blockquote>You can. On the user's profile, click "Moderator tools" and then choose "privileges" from there.</blockquote>
  • I don't see anything like that. Here's what it looks like when I click on <i>Moderator Tools</i>:
  • <img src="https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/cbfouf1elwkf3wqj6jppwz5tdwmf">
  • Maybe it's only available to administrators, not moderators?
#1: Initial revision by user avatar Olin Lathrop‭ · 2023-07-27T17:33:13Z (over 1 year ago) 
Let moderators grant abilities.
As a moderator on EE, I'd like to be able to grant abilities to specific users.

Personally, I think the system is way too restrictive with the edit ability.  If someone abuses it, there will be consequences.  A history is kept, and edits can be easily rolled back.

Suppose an ordinary user decides to clean things up and suggest a few edits.  After just a few of these, I can see there isn't going to be a problem.  In addition, I've seen other actions by this user, perhaps also on other platforms, and I'm reasonably confident they aren't going to vandalize the place.

In a case as above, I'd rather grant the edit ability than to keep approving suggested edits.  That's easier on me, and would be a better experience for the user too.

I looked around and found no way to do this.  I'm therefore asking for a feature to let moderators grant selected abilities to individual users.
feature-request