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What is a Moderator?

A moderator is a special member who is there to ensure the forum rules are respected

What a Moderator can do?

A moderator has access to a few options to make rules respected

- He/she can DELETE a message or a topic
- He/she can MOVE a message or a topic
- He/she can SPLIT a topic
- He/she can EDIT another member's message
- He/she can LOCK/UNLOCK a topic
- He/she can MERGE topics
- He/she can view members's IP addresses
- He/she can BAN a member if the admin authorized this function to moderators (see the Security section in the Admin panel)

To do all this job, he/she has buttons members don't have at the bottom-left of topics.

However, a moderator doesn't have any access to the admin panel, so he/she can't modify member profiles, delete or modify a forum or a category.

How to name a moderator ?

To name a moderator, you have 2 solutions
1- You name moderators one by one and you give rights to each of them
2- You create a moderator group and you give rights to the group, so you will just have to add or remove members in thr group

In the 1st case : Admin panel > User Admin & Group Admin > Management > Permissions tab > you set "Is Moderator" next to the forums you want this member to moderate.

In the second case : You create a group called "Moderators", and then in your Admin panel > User Admin & Group Admin > Management > Permissions > you set "is moderator" in front of the forums you want them to moderate

How to remove a moderator ?

Depending on how you named him/her, you go to the user permissions and you put "is not moderator", or you remove the member from the moderator group.


How to use the moderation functions?

1- Edit a member's message : Click on the "edit" button on the top-right of the message. A moderator can edit all messages, even the ones he/she didn't write. His/her name will not appear in the message ecxept if he/she puts "Message edited by... because..."

2- Delete a message : Click on the delete button at the top-right of a message

3- Delete a whole topic : Click on Delete the topic at the bottom-left of the topic

4- Move a topic : Click on Move a topic, at the bottom-left, then choose a forum where you want to move the topic. You can activate the "Leave a shadow topic". To move a post from a topic to another, you must first split the topic, then merge the post to another topic (see points 6 ans 7 for more details)

5.1- Lock a topic : Click on Lock the topic button at the bottom-left of the topic.

5.2-Unlock a topic : Click on Unlock the topic button at the bottom-left of the topic.

6- Split a topic : By clicking on the Split the topic button, the moderator can create 2 topics from a only one. By clicking on the button, the moderator will have to choose which messages will go to the new topic, by ticking the checkboxes at the right of the messages. Then he/she puts a new title and chooses the forum, then click on Split the selected messages.

7- Merge a topic : By clicking on Merge topics, at the bottom-left of the topic, the moderator can fuse two topics together. In the displaying window, you must first give a name to the new topic (ex : Japanese cuisine recipes), put the link or the topic number (displayed in the address, just after t=) of the first topic that you want to merge, and put the link of the destination topic. Be careful, the posts will be displayed by date and time, so this may bring some confusion in the discussions.

8- Ban a member : This option is available only if the administrator enabled it in the Security section in the admin panel. To ban a member, you just have to view his profile from the board and click one the "Ban this member" button.