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**Ivramire** · 02-20-2008, 07:59 PM

"A Forum Moderator, often shortened to just mod, is a person granted special powers to enforce the rules of an Internet forum (message board) or electronic mailing list. Almost all moderators on all forums can move discussions to different sections of the forum, close discussions, edit the content of individual postings, answer questions (or help people with problems), and stick discussions so they remain visible in their forum section even if no new postings are made to them. Different forums may give their moderators further powers, such as being able to block/ban people from the message board."-Wikipedia

My view is that a moderator has to be active and present to do all these things. If rl-problems or inactivity limits them in this capacity,
then they should either post that they are going on a hiatus and temporalily resign their status, or just become regular users.

02-20-2008, 07:59 PM	#3
Ivramire Where shall we wander? Posts: 3,666	"A Forum Moderator, often shortened to just mod, is a person granted special powers to enforce the rules of an Internet forum (message board) or electronic mailing list. Almost all moderators on all forums can move discussions to different sections of the forum, close discussions, edit the content of individual postings, answer questions (or help people with problems), and stick discussions so they remain visible in their forum section even if no new postings are made to them. Different forums may give their moderators further powers, such as being able to block/ban people from the message board."-Wikipedia My view is that a moderator has to be active and present to do all these things. If rl-problems or inactivity limits them in this capacity, then they should either post that they are going on a hiatus and temporalily resign their status, or just become regular users. Last edited by Ivramire; 02-20-2008 at 08:02 PM..