User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: July 10, 2017/@comment-24258073-20170711101403/@comment-24258073-20170711214053

Adding on to what I said last night. Imagine you are a user on a wiki that can be trusted to carry out administrative functions as a chat moderator, but imagine you haven't yet gained enough trust to carry out administrative functions as an administrator in chat. The recent technical changes have taken away the administrator's tactical advantages which has the same destructive effects as giving a chat moderator, chat admin abilities.

If the recent technical changes stay long term, then some communities may decide to prohibit allowing chat moderators from taking advantages of the situation which they never really should have to start with, or revoking the rights of the chat moderators completely. People can change. That's right. Equality between administrators and chat moderators in chat applies most of the time. But there are bigger situations where a regular chat moderator simply doesn't belong.