Forum:Blog patrol usergroup

This has been talked about a little bit among some of the members of the administrative team, and I figured it was sound enough to bring it up here. I would like to propose the creation of a new usergroup, one with blog comment deletion (blog-comments-delete) privileges. This would be given to certain users, via a formal process - a la request for rollback, who commonly use blog commenting.

This would ensure proper moderation of comments, as it will be be patrolled by the people who look at the commenting sections the most.

Thoughts? 17:17, May 15, 2011 (UTC)

This sounds like a good idea. Often I would like to be able to delete troll or spoiler comments from blogs but are unable to. However after seeing some arguments I do agree that maybe it is slightly unnecessary to have users with a large variety of powers which should be handeled by admins 17:20, May 15, 2011 (UTC)

It seems like a good idea, but here's a question: WHY do we give administrators tools? So they can do things only admins can do to help. Right now we have 10+ admins, and we're just slowly handing out admin tools. First normal users get to move images, extremely helpful yes, then we get rollback powers, extremely useful yes, now we possibly get the ability to delete comments. What next, the ability to protect pages? Keep the admin tools to the admins.  Blackout Talk  17:34, May 15, 2011 (UTC)

18:01, May 15, 2011 (UTC)

I agree with Blackout. — 18:05, May 15, 2011 (UTC)

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