Board Thread:Administrator's Noticeboard/@comment-7697305-20150120234008/@comment-7697305-20150205101951

(Sorry for the lateness of this reply.)

By the sounds of things, the general consensus in this thread is as follows: *See below the quote for my suggestion on this issue
 * The moderator right should be assigned in the same way that all user groups have historically been assigned: via a nomination page a la Terraria Wiki:Admin and Bureaucrat Nominations and Terraria Wiki:Rollbacker Nominations. The only point of contention is whether this nomination would be rolled in with the rollback nominations or would have its own page*.
 * Moderators should have a username highlight (maybe light green, per Silver's suggestion?) and a tag on the forums, but should probably not have a comment highlight.
 * The people who have been called out as potentially being suited to the role are:

Anyone have anything else they would like to add to this? SilverHexxitFights said: I think the "Moderator" right is an improvement over standard rollbacks, and as such should be given its own nomination page. TerrariamcSwaggins said: I kind of see it like this: So for Chat Moderator, seeing that there is no nomination procedure to have for granting them (these rights are granted by admin at their own discretion, if anyone else doesn't know), Chat Moderator rights are definitely the "lowest" rank. Especially given that the rights don't really directly affect the wiki.
 * 1) Chat Moderator
 * 2) Rollback or Forum Moderator
 * 3) 

Rollback rights are typically given* by this I mean the whole nomination procedure to users who are very active on the main wiki, users who revert vandalism quickly and fix up other's edits. The trust of the community in the particular user is also a mandatory thing to have, of course.

Forum Moderator, on the other hand, would typically be given* to people who are positively active on the forums and trusted by the community (mainly the forum community, if you could call it that) in general, either answering questions or helping other users out with the game ( is a good example of this).

So I kinda feel that Rollback rights and Forum Moderator are in the same general "rank category" as a Chat Moderator (or normal user) could go either "path" with them. So I believe that they should therefore be both placed on one nomination page.

* When I say "given", I mean like doing the whole nomination procedure. Squazzil said: I am also leaning towards the notion that Rollbacks and Moderators are on the same level, just with their own specific tasks to perform on the wiki. Unless I'm mistaken, I don't think the Moderator gains the ability to rollback edits, so they aren't necessarily "higher" than the rollback. As I believe I alluded to in another thread, I don't really think any of the user groups should be categorized into a hierarchy of ranks. Instead, I think they should just be seen as positions of responsibility who only have power in that they indicate the community trusts them to fulfill a few extra roles.

In the spirit of this attitude, my suggestion for how the moderator nomination process should be handled is to change the structure of all nomination pages. Namely, I propose that Terraria Wiki:Admin and Bureaucrat Nominations and Terraria Wiki:Rollbacker Nominations should be merged into a new page where nominations for all user rights will take place. I expect the title of this page would be Terraria Wiki:Rights Nominations or the like.