User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The future of Chat/@comment-44871140-20200806005300/@comment-24258073-20200806010134

Their rights will be automatically revoked. Some communities may consider grandfathering them into Discussion Moderators. While others will be automatically demoted to regular users. Personally I am on the side of people that would choose not to grandfather them into a higher tiered group, especially if they haven't been active or proven to have sufficient experience to be grandfathered into the said groups.