Board Thread:Wiki discussions and announcements/@comment-3308937-20170117041558/@comment-1330314-20170117055150

Consolidating all mod ranks into a single one would likely make things a lot more consistent and less confusing, since the only real reason to have a separate moderator rank would be for chat (and even then, it's not that big a difference). However, this also means giving all mods block rights, which requires a very serious assessment of all the current mods who currently don't have access to that. As a content moderator myself, I feel the main decision should come from those who are out of the loop, i.e. admins, 'crats and regular users.