User blog comment:Mira Laime/Moderators Without Borders — a New User Group is Coming/@comment-11733175-20170815181225

I find it curious that one of the use cases for this new group is when existing moderators of the wiki, i.e. admins, reject discussions and yet it is enabled anyway. It seems like papering over problems not actually addressing them. It is also surprising that this has become enough of an issue to form a significant part of the rationale behind the group. Could discussions potentially be taken as something that splinters a community rather than grows it?

As for the tools available to the new moderators, do they have access to a feed that enables them to do their job? Tracking down spam is likely to be impossible without some kind of aid and without something limiting poor quality posts then it serves to solidify the reasons behind admins not wanting to take it on.