User blog comment:BertH/User rights updates for Forum and Message Wall/@comment-25209034-20150124004101/@comment-5275700-20150124005239

Quite a few communities have been asking for this, for some time. I'll repost something I said in an earlier comment:

The original vision for the "anyone can remove/restore" setup was meant to preserve the "wiki spirit" of openness and the editability of talk pages and wiki-style forums (where anyone could potentially edit anyone else's text). But in practice, there was often abuse and we received many requests to restrict the remove/restore abilities.

If there have been helpful regular users in a community who used the abilities to clean up spam, it seems like they might be good moderator candidates.