User blog comment:BertH/New Forums now available in Labs/@comment-842519-20121219141040

G'day

I was referred to you after I posted a thread about Forum Moderators.

The Wiki I am an Admin for has added a Forum to our Wiki. it has been a HUGE success and very popular with our Users. This has resulted in the Staff of our Wiki wishing to promote some Users to be Moderators to help with the sudden increase in traffic.

I've noticed that Wikia have the ability for us to promote "Chat Moderators". Is it possible for these people to be granted extra tools/abilities so that they can Moderate the Forum as well?

Personally, I'd be happy for them to have access to the following and would like to humbly submit these suggestions to you to consider:

* The ability to ban Registered Users for up to 3 Days

* The ability to Block an IP from making Comments unless they become a Registered User

* The ability to move threads to other Boards

* The ability to remove posts/comments all together



In addition to that, I also have some additional feedback/suggestions...

# Is it possible for Admins (and Forum Mods?) to "Sticky" a Thread so that it will remain at the top of a board?

# Is it possible for Users to customise their email noticiations for Forums? A User commented to us that they had to disable Notifications all together just to stop getting emails about the Forum.

# Is it possible to make it so that only Registered Users can Post a New Thread? This will allow unregistered users to still participate in conversations from the annonymity of "A Wiki Contributor", but this restriction might encourage people to become Registerd Users if they really want to start a new thread.



All up, LOVE the Forum feature, and so do our Users.

RG  : )