For a good while (some months, actually), we admins and crats have been discussing about giving Content Moderator rights to a few users. For those who don't know, Content Mods have access to rollback and deletion tools, but can't block users.
I'm opening this discussion, so you guys can opinate on the subject. Should we make one or more users into Content Mods, and who you guys suggest to be given such rights (feel free to apply yourselves too if you want).
That sounds good to me. I would nominate NerdWithAKeyboard, 694244 and/or DarkUnknownWarrior.
For the time being, I think 694244 would be one of my nominees.
I think 694244 and Nerd are solid choices for content mods. Might I throw out MenInBlak? Or is he too absent/unwilling? He sounds relatively trustable to me.
FMT, it looks like MenInBlak is currently inactive.
I'm changing what I said before, I think we can promote around 3 to 5 people for the position instead of around 5 people. 5 being the maximum amount, imo -- if we are going with that amount of people. I only really base the number off of how big the community, how there is over 40,000 pages to moderate, and how it can help in moderating content on the wiki.
Then what is the difference between the privileges from Content Mods and the Admins?
I think Content Mods can lock pages, but they can’t delete them or ban users (at least from what I've seen).
Content Mods can lock and unlock pages, delete and restore pages, and revert edits like the admins. Its just that they can't block or unblock users and I don't think they have access to the admin dashboard.
chain command:
1) crats = "ascended" admins who can do what they want in theory BUT are still expected to do what admins do (run the wiki) they can be blocked or demoted by Fandom if they go insane / troublesome.. as stated above they technically don't report to anyone but Fandom can remove them if they become a problem : on most wikis (including this one) crats are also expected to work together, thus no single crat is "all-powerful" as other crats can undo their work (only Staff can demote a crat though).
2) admins = can block users, can do everything a Content Mod can do and are expected to run the wiki with help of crats and Content Mods, can be demoted by crats.. who they also usually report to (unless there's good reason not to)
3) Content Mods = can lock pages, delete/restore pages and so forth - they are expected to help clean up the wiki and keep it nice and ordered, the bigger the wiki the more Mods are needed and they report (usually) to admins.
So they can delete pages. That puts more emphasis on what I wrote before about remade articles. I also think a content mod shouldn’t just delete some articles right away because they think a character isn’t a villain. They should first see if the user who made the page has a strong enough explanation as to why the character could be considered a villain. Maybe go talk to an admin if things get too heated.
