User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Introducing New Moderator Opportunities For Community Administration/@comment-26213507-20160123182038/@comment-24258073-20160123192532

It's not pointless. Administrators aren't the only ones that can be trusted to do administrative tasks. But not all those trusted users can be trusted to block and unblock users.

As for Discussions Moderators being responsible for chat. I must say that it is a little redundant but we just have to accept these changes. I obviously don't dislike these changes the way certain others do.