Board Thread:Wiki discussions and announcements/@comment-3308937-20170117041558/@comment-3308937-20170121005010

Was there a discussion on using the new moderator ranks that I missed (serious question, I was gone for the better part of a year). If anything I'd assume that the people who currently hold those ranks and those that voted them in would've thought they wouldn't have the additional rights (protect, forum admin, undelete) not the other way around, since moderators have had the block right since 2010 and the request for mod is the same request that we've always used.

Regardless of what way we go we'll still be giving out the moderator rank to those who apply to become a moderator, unless there's a specific discussion otherwise. The purpose of this discussion/proposal was adding the new rights (protect, forum admin mostly) to our existing rank to clear up redundancies and confusion.

As an aside: Tyranitar should have block rights, straight up, as he applied for the moderator position, which includes block rights, why he doesn't I don't know as I wasn't here for his nomination and unless Teh or someone else says otherwise I will be giving him the rights that he was nominated for. You, Will, shouldn't even be a mod, you applied for rollback (which is silly in the first place, rollback stopped needing a rights request back when we took away colored usernames, and someone should have told you that and just given you the rights instead of making you jump through hoops), if these changes went through you wouldn't gain the ability to block people, you'd still stay where you are as content mod unless another rights request is brought up.