Thread Moderators are users who have additional tools available to manage conversations in various features across the community where users are having discussions. These tools are:
- Removing and restoring threads and replies by any user
- Closing and reopening replies
- Deleting blog comments
- Editing and deleting article comments
- Moderating the Discussions feature, when enabled
- Having access to Admin Dashboard
- Making announcements
Having this status causes the tag "Thread Moderator" to appear next to user's username in their profile. See Special:ListUsers/threadmoderator for a member list.
Admininistrators enjoy all the privileges of thread moderators, so they do not need to be put into that group.
Wiki policy[]
Thread moderator rights are not very strong and as such, becoming a thread moderator does not require an election. Any trusted user can be appointed by any administrator to be a thread moderator.
All thread moderators are given rollback rights in addition to this right, and all content moderators are given this right in addition to their right.
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