User blog comment:Mira Laime/Moderators Without Borders — a New User Group is Coming/@comment-11733175-20170815181225/@comment-26339491-20170815191912

We're setting up this group partly in response to communities who do not want to participate in their Discussions, even though it's attracting new people to their wiki, but not in place of addressing those communities' concerns! We're very much still working on improving Discussions itself, so hopefully, more and more communities will find it useful.

There are many cases, though, where a community's Discussions have become much more active than the wiki itself, or where a game or movie has only just come out and there is no established wiki community and leadership yet. It'll be very good to have users who can come in and help out for a few months in those cases, until the wiki and its admins can catch up to the buzz in Discussions, or moderators directly from among the new users can be found.

The global Discussions moderators will primarily work with the same tools local moderators would have, i.e. the list of reported posts, Insights, etc., plus they'll be able to ping staff directly if a global block or IP check is needed. Spam monitoring and deletion on a larger scale is still done by VSTF, even if it happens in a Discussions community where the global Discussions moderators are active.