Moderation is a distributed effort on Dewachat Community, with (almost) everyone having permission to do something moderation-related.
Trust Level 1 - Basic Users
Basic users can:
- Flag posts
Trust Level 3 - Regular Users
Regular users can do everything above, and also:
- Recategorise and rename topics
- Immediately hide a post written by a new user (Trust Level 0) by casting a spam flag on it
- Auto-silence and hide all the posts of a new user (Trust Level 0) by casting flags on their posts in sufficient diversity
Trust Level 4 - Leaders
Leaders can do everything above, and also:
- Edit all posts
- Pin and unpin topics
- Close topics
- Archive topics
- Unlist (hide) topics
- Split and merge topics
- Create tags
Moderators
Moderators can do everything above, and also:
- Process flags
- Process posts held in the moderation queue
- View private user information, including email addresses
- Suspend and silence users
- Adjust a user’s trust level
- Delete topics
- Delete and anonymize users
Admins
Admins can do everything above, and also:
- Read and moderate any user’s personal messages
- Ignore category permissions to view private categories
- Create and delete categories
- Change category permissions