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 Creating forum moderators 
Description: How to add, delete, forums moderators, on a per user, or per group basis.
Author: chAos
Date: Tue Oct 29, 2002 2:52 pm
Type: Tutorial
Keywords: create, make, mod, moderators, remove, delete, groups, rights, permissions
Category: Administrating
In this basic tutorial, you will learn how to add, delete, forums moderators, on a per user, or per group basis. If you have any questions, please post a topic in the support forum.

Version: 1.0.3 - KB Edition

Contents

  1. Creating Forum Moderators

    1. Per User
    2. Per Group

  2. Deleting Forum Moderators

    1. Removing Moderator Status From Users
    2. Removing Moderator Status From Groups



1.0 - Creating Moderators
Creating moderators can be done in two ways. Per user, and per group. If done per user, their username appears underneath the forum they moderate. If by the group, the group name appears. If you have numerous moderators, it would be better to put them all in a group, and then give the group moderator privelages.

1.1 - Per User
To make a user a moderator, open your administration pannel. In the menu, scroll down until you find "permissions" under the "user admin" section. Press that. Then type in the username of the user you want to make a mod. If you do not know the name, you can use the "find a username" feature to find it for you.
One you're in, you'll find a list of all your forums, and dropdown boxes with the words "not moderator" in them. For each forum you want them to be a moderator for, change what the box says to "Is Moderator". Once done, hit submit, and then you're done. Repeat for each user you want.

1.2 - Per Group
First of all, make sure that the group exists. Similar to with the user, find "permissions" under "group admin". Click it. Select the moderator group. Then use the same method, make the dropdown boxes day "Is Moderator" for each forum you want. Note that all members of the group will get the moderator rights.

2.0 - Deleting Moderators
Same method just reversed.

2.1 - Deleting User Moderators
Open the admin pannel, and goto "user permissions", type in the users name, then make all the dropdown boxes say "Not Moderator". Hit submit when you're done. Repeat for all users you want.

2.2 - Deleting Groups With Moderator Rights
Open up the admin pannel, and click on "group permissions". Select the group, click submit. Then, change the dropdown boxes to "not moderator". This will not delete the group, just the moderator rights they have.


Well, thats it.

I hope that it helps people.

See ya Very Happy

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