Thread:Brandon Rhea/@comment-33774728-20190215163300/@comment-26339491-20190215165115

Only admins can enable or disable Chat.

Discussions moderators have access to the admin dashboard because that is currently the only way to reach the Announcements management page, and they have the right to create or expire announcements and see the previous ones, just like admins do.

Although they have access, moderators still can't use the other admin-only tools in there. They still can't edit the wiki's CSS or theme, for instance.