User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Introducing New Moderator Opportunities For Community Administration/@comment-25739558-20160114182929/@comment-24258073-20160119002216

Well, put it this way. We've had chat moderators as a local group for years, before I first joined wikia in December 2013, although I'd been browsing wikia pages since 2008.

Whereas moderators, previously known sometimes as thread moderators were only introduced last year. While this may seem like a kind of defeat having chat moderators as a unique usergroup, with none of the other local usergroups having chat moderator rights, except for administrators, I can understand if wikia wanted to enlarge the scope of additional user rights for moderators.

Preferably I would sooner wikia created deluxe versions of the rollback, moderator, and chat moderator groups than have discussions moderators replace moderators, and have content moderators as a level up from roll-backers.