User blog comment:Mira Laime/Moderators Without Borders — a New User Group is Coming/@comment-33046846-20170821214021

I do like the idea, and I'm definitely looking forward to this! However, I'm wondering about the following:

I see that this usergroup has the ability to block users, as well as holding the local discussion moderator tools. Seeing as these are tools that local administrators have, this would be a different type of usergroup than other global ones. I do see why, since this is meant towards the Discussions feature, which wouldn't need much else, but I was wondering - given the tools and experience, would the local team of moderators and administrators have the say over global moderators? I'm guessing that it would be the local groups, as the blog said that global moderators wouldn't interfere with the community's set guidelines, but I just want to be sure.

Second, for communities where administrators will not have the excess time to look after discussions, another solution would be to appoint more moderators who have experience sith Discussions. Chances are, for communities that have the Discussions feature enabled with moderate activity will have some user actively participating in Discussions that have experience has a moderator on other communities will be granted the discussion moderator role. I am in agreement with some of the ideas Arch Wizard Megumin gave, and although my questions were answered in the reply. An answer to this would be that for communities with not many users experienced with Discussions to simply request help from global moderators. And, from what I've read, global moderators do not help with Discussions on communities where moderators and administrators are doing a great job on moderating them, and where they know what to do. So, again, this answers most of what I said. But then again, if a community wih lower levels of inactivity to ones that barely have any, most users would not even care about the feature enough to request help. Just my imput.

Despite my concerns, I really like this idea, and I certainly believe that a large amount of struggling communities could benefit from this usergroup! I'd like to see how this turns out, as I am an administrator on a community where the other administrators don't even post on Discussions, as they do not like the feature. So because of that, Discussions has been mostly abandoned. I am thinking of requesting help in the future, but I'm goig to bring it up with the other administrators. This has a lot of potential, and I believe this will be a huge success!

 Phillydan25   (talk)  21:40, August 21, 2017 (UTC)