Thread:Hackey5/@comment-27022259-20160530165918/@comment-5645428-20160608132933

A user at a level such that they can be trusted to wield any moderation tools should be entitled to both discussion and content moderator rights. If they cannot be trusted to not perform rampant protections or deletions, then enabling them the ability to ban users is overly generous. Managing people is a lot more demanding than managing pages, and I'd be more concerned about granting discussion moderator rights; that's speaking of responsibility, not just an extended editing ability. Therefore, I would have trusted users adequately equipped in both areas. "Fulfilling timezones" has never been a requirement for acquiring particular moderator rights, and measuring the necessity of having nine compared to three, there is no such thing as an excess in the granting of tools to counteract spam and vandalism. By the way, rollback rights are included for one click reversions, helpful yet as basic as enhanced editing can get.

Don't get me wrong, there is a distinction between moderator and administrator in that administrators should be taking an active role in directing operations and running wiki projects. Moderators need only perform routine duties in managing threads, keeping the chat respectful while they are present, and what I would also have preferred, deleting irrelevant articles and files where they occur. Personally, I would have it so that moderators may also block offending users, but that is a limitation of the system and cannot be changed. By doing things such as participating frequently in staff discussions, suggesting major article design improvements, proposing new pages and templates, uploading wanted files and hosting forum events, a user demonstrates initiative. These are just a few examples. To put it rather plainly, that is what sets apart a potential moderator, who should be responsible, from an administrator, who should also demonstrate initiative.

And that's all that's needed, two staff groups based on first, their trustworthiness and responsibility, and second, their initiative and leadership. Further division is just compli