Lack of interest Moderator Permission Profiles

[Brettflan]

When adding a moderator for a specific node, it would be immensely helpful for large forums if there were editable permission profiles solely covering "Forum moderator permissions" within that node. These moderator permission profiles could be added and modified within a new section in the admin panel. Then, when adding a moderator to a specific node or editing an existing node moderator, there would be an added dropdown for selecting a moderator permission profile to apply in addition to the individual "Forum moderator permissions".

This would allow the administrator to more quickly set appropriate moderator permissions for a specific type of moderator. More importantly, if the moderator permission profile needs to be later changed to add or remove certain permissions, that change would then automatically be applied to any moderators with that permission profile set.

This lack of functionality is currently the biggest weakness of XenForo for our forum. We have a few hundred boards, many with multiple moderators set, and we have different levels of moderator who are trusted with different numbers of permissions within their boards. As you might imagine, it can be a bit of a nightmare keeping track of what permissions are supposed to be set for each moderator of all of our various boards.

 

[Martok]

You can do some of what you want already, for "forum moderator permissions" (though not for general permissions like viewing IP addresses). For this you would:

1. Create a "node moderator" user group for a specific node (but don't set any permissions in the user group)
2. In the node permissions for that specific node, choose the "node moderator" user group you just set up and set the forum moderator permissions there. These permissions will then only apply to members of that user group in that specific node
3. Repeat the process for all other nodes you want forum moderators in
4. When adding a user as a forum moderator in the ACP, in the "Add moderator to user groups" section tick the appropriate "node moderator" user group for the node you are adding them to

This should at least for now help cut down some of the work when setting up forum moderators.

 

[Brettflan]

That would provide all moderators granted that usergroup with forum moderator permissions for all nodes which are set that way, correct? So for all of the nodes we have with completely different moderators set, that would require us to add potentially dozens of usergroups. Doesn't sound all that practical, especially as we're trying to keep the number of usergroups down to as few as possible.

It is an interesting thought, though, and could be useful for others.

 

[Martok]

That would provide all moderators granted that usergroup with forum moderator permissions for all nodes which are set that way, correct?

No. It would only give forum moderator permissions to members of that group for that specific node.

Just to clarify:

Node 1
Create "Forum Moderators Node 1" user group
In Node 1 permissions (not the user group permissions) assign the forum moderator permissions to that user group.

Node 2
Create "Forum Moderators Node 2" user group
In Node 2 permissions (not the user group permissions) assign the forum moderator permissions to that user group.

Members of "Forum Moderators Node 1" will only have moderator permissions in Node 1.
Members of "Forum Moderators Node 2" will only have moderator permissions in Node 2.

Yes, this will mean more user groups. That doesn't really matter though. If you are dealing with dozens or moderators, it's a lot quicker to make them a forum moderator and when doing so, click in the "Add moderator to user groups" section and tick the appropriate "node moderator" user group for the node you are adding them to than to have to tick all of the individual forum moderator permissions. Also if you ever want to change the forum moderator permissions for a particular node, you only have to do it once in the Node Permissions for that moderator group rather than for every single forum moderator in that node.

 

[Brettflan]

Yes, I'm pretty sure that's how I understood it to work. Perhaps something in my wording implied otherwise.

The problem is that we have 250+ nodes set with 1-4 different local moderators each, totaling roughly 340 moderators. Then a handful of higher tier more official section moderators, which are easier to handle changes for.

Again, that sort of workaround could be useful for some people, I'm certain. However, setting up 250 additional usergroups for the ~340 lesser moderators does not seem practical for our purposes.