Board Thread:Wiki discussions and announcements/@comment-3308937-20170117041558/@comment-1588401-20170121214615

When I think about it, there are two basic things I'd like to 1) There should be only two kinds of moderations: content and community 2) Every moderator who is granted special rights should be granted the inverse rights, too.

That means: Content moderators should be granted rights for content moderation, where "content" means "permanent stuff that visitors can see", i. e. forum posts, comments, pages, etc. Content moderators should be granted all rights related to actions such as delete, move, protect, edit protected, rollback, upload etc.

Community moderators should be granted rights for user moderation, related to actions such as warn, kick, ban, promote/grant, rename.

Knowing that mistakes can happen, I think it is wise to always grant the inverted right. For example, a content moderator that can delete or protect a page should also be allowed to restore or unprotect a page. If you trust a person enough to allow him to delete content, you basically assume he's able to distinguish between "good" and "bad" content. No reason to not allow him to restore unrightfully deleted good content, then.

The only exception to this "inversal" rule can be the revoking of rights, although this is not necessary if you trust your moderators.