User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Introducing New Moderator Opportunities For Community Administration/@comment-26009167-20160115035722/@comment-5558012-20160115181720

There's no twisting involved. Based on what you stated, the two apply quite the same and have the same implications to the position.

"There are many wikis here who probably weren't expecting for forum mods to have chatmod all of a sudden."

While I see what you mean, part of the problem is thinking "Moderator" was/is strictly a forum mod position (unless you don't have message wall enabled (now in addition to blogs, article comments (this was a known addition before the update), and chat), which in a way is irrelevant because "Discussion Mod" is a position that regulated all optional features).

You make a recognizable point for some wikis and your wiki seems to me as a unique case in which a particular feature/position is ranked higher than it normally would. This is really only a problem because there is a Chat-specific position in the first place, now if there was a Blog Moderator position it wouldn't be surprising if someone would want those rights removed from Discussion Moderator. As such, it still seems the best course of action would be to ask Staff to remove Chat on a case-by-case bases.

While I agree Wikia should be more open with more updates beforehand (as your original comment suggests), the position created naturally would cover Chat as well by default. I don't think that should change for every wiki.