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What Is The Difference Between Administrator & Moderator?
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Title: Forum Junkie Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,624 Location: Holmfirth, England ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Well, in my eyes, Administrators own the forum, or own a controlling share in the forum, Moderators are just hired to help admin look after the forum, they also can sort things out when Admin are away, I.E I often employ moderators from a different timezone, so when im in bed asleep, they can be on the board taking are.
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Title: Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,034 Location: Michigan, US ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Recent Blog: Action figures and comics in SW:TOR?s future? | Well admins have many more permissions than moderators do. A lot of admins just handle the technical side of things while moderators do the policing of the forums. Though admins can do that as well. A lot of times very large forums will have many administrators, for example Lucasforums has 23 admins.
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Title: Gas: $3.55 Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,980 Location: back in TX ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Administrators have the power to do all jobs relating to the board. Moderators have the power to deal with only certain aspects of the board. All admins can moderate, but moderators cannot administrate.
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Title: Forum Addict Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1,435 Location: Baton Rouge, LA ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Quote:
You can also limit your admins' abilities. You might have one admin is only able to administer users, while you may have another who is only able to administer templates. | |||||
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| Title: Lurker Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5 Location: London, UK ![]() | Yes, I know i havnt posted on here for aaaages. Thats the down side of being busy at work ![]() At our forum, we have a rather screwed up structure, but it "works", mostly... - At the top, you have me and a friend, who are the god admins (we liked to be called cat herders ) - were the only ones with FTP access to the site (Dont trust many people with FTP access to the site, as you can very easily screw things up).- We have a bunch of "old school" admins, who quite frankly, arnt around much, but are loved by the community (aww) - We have supermods, who actually have admin powers, because we admins got sick of thier continuing whinging in trying to get us to do things. - Then we have the usual forum mods, some mod quite a few number of the forums... The orig idea was for escalation, but as most people ignored the "chain of command" and just messaged me (grr), its just got all mashed up now... PZY | ||||
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| Title: Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 125 Location: Hell ![]() | Moderators, are used to make sure that regular users aren't doing the wrong stuff when the admins can't look over them. For example, I'm a moderator of Syxe Free Hosting Forums. And I've had to give an infraction on there before. But what I wonder what the difference is between Super Administrators and Administrators on XMB forums. ~Sean | ||||
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