User blog comment:Mira Laime/Moderators Without Borders — a New User Group is Coming/@comment-25240518-20170818183207

This is a cool idea and all for wikis that negate the Discussions function, but doesn't this suffer from the same glaring flaw the original Moderators did? In that smaller communities have no use for it? Being as situational as it is it feels like it will be pushed aside just like the original. Even on growing wikis that have a sustained community it still feels like it will be ignored, considering most contributors would be more fitting for adminship as opposed to Discussions Moderator. It's not like Discussions is a parallel to Chat &mdash; from what I've seen, there are few people that come onto wikis for Discussions as opposed to Chat. Just look at Community Central, haha &mdash; there are tons of people with very few edits that are super active on Chat. As for Discussions? It's quite the contrary. I get you're trying to push this new feature or whatever, but it's not like it's incredibly innovative when compared to Forums, which has been here longer, is far more dyed-in-the-wool, and doesn't make more advanced users feel completely patronized with its simplistic, more "Hi guys i just joined yesterday this is confusing!!1" interface. Just seems pretty situational and caters to a small demographic (from my experience) of both wikis and people.