User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The future of Chat/@comment-44997034-20200805193432/@comment-24258073-20200806010702

I personally would prefer not to promote them to Discussion Moderator unless they have proven to have sufficient experience with Discussion Moderator rights.

Otherwise I generally don't see why they shouldn't automatically be demoted to regular users. If they want higher tiered rights then they should request higher tiered rights in a separate user rights requests.

Discussion Moderator rights can be very detrimental in the wrong hands, so I don't think that just handing Chat Moderators additional rights to avoid losing their positions altogether would be a good idea.