User blog comment:Mira Laime/Moderators Without Borders — a New User Group is Coming/@comment-9605025-20170816014609/@comment-1280533-20170816074725

On the second one, my guess is they would technically be able to do things outside Discussions, because their rights sound like they will be the same as Discussions Moderators (and so would include article comments, blogs and chat), but they wouldn't use those rights because they won't operate beyond Discussions.