Admins: I prefer three, just to cover bases in case of incident. Be extremely cautious about who goes here, and make sure that they are completely trustworthy.
Mods: Yes, and at least ten of these.
Mod powers: They should have the power to lock threads, move threads from one board to another, and hand down tempbans of no greater than three days' time. They should be able to mark (and lock against editing) whichever posts are considered offensive to the rules, but not to edit their content or delete them outright; this is to prevent the removal of evidence in the event of disputes.
Rotation: No, the last thing we need is to have campaigning on the forum. Admins and mods should remain such until and unless they are removed from office or voluntarily step down. In the event that a moderator is absent for a significant length of time, the admins should decide whether to replace them, and with whom. If there is a move from the userbase to impeach a moderator, posted on the Disciplinary Actions Board (see below), then it will be required that the admins vote to retain, remove, or ban outright the offending mod.
Other:
There should be a Disciplinary Actions Board. Users who are tempbanned should be prevented from posting except on this board - and even then, only under a single thread created by themselves, whose purpose should explicitly be to appeal or question their ban - but should not be blocked from reading any board's content. Moderators should be unable to edit, lock, or delete any threads or posts in the Disciplinary Actions Board; admins alone should have those powers.
Users who are permanently banned, however, should be blocked from accessing anything except their own control panel and PM inbox. Only Admins should have the power to permanently ban users.
And, as is the case on old TFF, any user should have the power to edit or delete his own posts, and to lock or delete any threads he creates (except, in both cases, where a mod has flagged a post or thread for disciplinary action, in which case it should not be alterable except by an admin).
Also, as if this weren't obvious, the creator of this forum should have the final word on any goings-on, period. If he turns out to be untrustworthy (and I'm counting on this not being the case), the lot of us should all pack up and ship out, anyway.
Mods: Yes, and at least ten of these.
Mod powers: They should have the power to lock threads, move threads from one board to another, and hand down tempbans of no greater than three days' time. They should be able to mark (and lock against editing) whichever posts are considered offensive to the rules, but not to edit their content or delete them outright; this is to prevent the removal of evidence in the event of disputes.
Rotation: No, the last thing we need is to have campaigning on the forum. Admins and mods should remain such until and unless they are removed from office or voluntarily step down. In the event that a moderator is absent for a significant length of time, the admins should decide whether to replace them, and with whom. If there is a move from the userbase to impeach a moderator, posted on the Disciplinary Actions Board (see below), then it will be required that the admins vote to retain, remove, or ban outright the offending mod.
Other:
There should be a Disciplinary Actions Board. Users who are tempbanned should be prevented from posting except on this board - and even then, only under a single thread created by themselves, whose purpose should explicitly be to appeal or question their ban - but should not be blocked from reading any board's content. Moderators should be unable to edit, lock, or delete any threads or posts in the Disciplinary Actions Board; admins alone should have those powers.
Users who are permanently banned, however, should be blocked from accessing anything except their own control panel and PM inbox. Only Admins should have the power to permanently ban users.
And, as is the case on old TFF, any user should have the power to edit or delete his own posts, and to lock or delete any threads he creates (except, in both cases, where a mod has flagged a post or thread for disciplinary action, in which case it should not be alterable except by an admin).
Also, as if this weren't obvious, the creator of this forum should have the final word on any goings-on, period. If he turns out to be untrustworthy (and I'm counting on this not being the case), the lot of us should all pack up and ship out, anyway.
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