| Re: Term "moderator" used too loosely [message #2977 is a reply to message #2976] |
Wed, 05 June 2002 23:42   |
Ilia
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I see where you are going with this, however there are issues to keep in mind. FUDforum is not the 1st first forum out here and in many cases we must 'deal' with unwritten standards established by other forums.
In the forum world the term moderator refers to the user who has administrative privileges in the forum, whatever those privileges maybe already depends on the forum itself. By altering the way we call moderators would result in MUCH confusion for people who decide to use the forum, especially for people who had used other forum software before. Therefor I chose to stick with Moderators, ultimately the moderator can and does screen messages, by having the ability to edit/remove in appropriate messages.
I think the term moderator you are getting the definition from is actually the usenet/mailing ling defention of the term, it IMHO is quite different in the forum world, where a message can be altered after it has been made public vs newsgroups and mailing lists where once a message has gone through there is no going back.
All that said, you can quite easily rename the term 'moderator' on your forum, by simply editing the English/msg files and replacing 'moderator' with the term you feel is more appropriate.
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