User blog comment:Mira Laime/Moderators Without Borders — a New User Group is Coming/@comment-24687156-20170816153642/@comment-4347751-20170816162234

No, these moderators do not have rights outside of Discussions. They have only the ability to use delete functions etc while on Discussions. You can see their rights at Special:Listgrouprights and compare those to the abilities of a local Discussion moderator.

I assume that a Discussion block only will not be introduced, simply, in my opinion, if a user cannot behave on the Discussions side of the wiki, they should not be allowed to edit on the wiki at all.