User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Introducing New Moderator Opportunities For Community Administration/@comment-26009167-20160115035722/@comment-26009167-20160115152657

@DaNASCAT: While I appreciate that it is optional, if I take those words at face value (which I would believe is how it's meant to be taken), that would seem to imply that a wiki I run would be forced to either have discussion moderators or no moderators of the forums at all (excluding admins/sysops).

While I do understand it's to alleviate some of the burden on administrators and chat moderators, I would prefer people who I choose to moderate forums don't have chat moderator. I can understand them moderating article comments (and I wholeheartedly agree that it would make sense for them to), but again, I would prefer to keep forum moderators and chat moderators seperate, rather than one be essentially a stripped-down version of the other.

tl;dr version: I don't think discussion moderators should have chatmod permissions, as much sense as it would make for the name.

(By the way, I would like to apologize for my original comment -- I was a bit aggressive with it. Though, while I understand community council is a thing, changes like this that can drastically affect how a community opperates should always be taken to a poll here on CC, in my opinion.

I would also like to mention that I completely neglected the Content Moderators change when making that comment -- just as I can understand forum moderators now having the ability to manage article comments, I think the Content Moderators right was a good addition.)