[Mageia-webteam] Questions about the forum - Part II

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2011/4/7 Maât <maat-ml at vilarem.net>:
> Le 07/04/2011 10:49, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
>> 2011/4/6 Maât <maat-ml at vilarem.net>:
>>> Le 01/04/2011 20:08, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
>>>> 3. Privileges in the forum have to be tied to the task of the
>>>> group/user, nothing else.
>>>>
>>>> For simplicity I'd go for
>>>>
>>>>  - Admin group (creating/changing forum structures, creating groups,
>>>> maintenance of the forum, making announcements about the forum, etc.)
>>>>
>>>>  - Global moderators = all moderators, where moderating means:
>>>>  - - moving/merging/closing threads, editing posts (if necessary
>>>> because of forum or legal rules), counseling users (positive and
>>>> negative), announcing important things, etc.
>>>>
>>>>  - Special groups who could be additional moderators of one section,
>>>> like packagers and translators who are not in Global Moderators but
>>>> could be moderators and contacts for the "Packaging and Translating"
>>>> section. They have privileges only in this section.
>>>>
>>>> That's all. Simple, transparent, easy to understand and to maintain
>>>> and to scale if needed.
>>>>
>>>> We've been working with this setup for years (even before we switched
>>>> to phpbb3). Moderators were happy, users knew who to turn to. Admin
>>>> was happy :)
>>> Do you realise that you precisely describe what we have set up on the mageia forums from the beginning ?
>> Then why is it not so now? Why does my description differ so much to yours?
>> For instance: What am I? According to the color and profile I am a
>> member of the "founders" group.
>> What does that mean in practice? I haven't found out yet. Same for the
>> other "special groups"
> I just let you answer to yourself :
>
> Le 01/04/2011 20:08, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
>>  - Special groups who could be additional moderators of one section,
>> like packagers and translators who are not in Global Moderators but
>> could be moderators and contacts for the "Packaging and Translating"
>> section. They have privileges only in this section.
>>
>> That's all. Simple, transparent, easy to understand and to maintain
>> and to scale if needed.
> You are in a special group who *could* be additional moderator of one section (or an other) :)

Yes, of course, I asked why these and not others.

> I really don't understand how you come to see a difference between to things that are actually identical :o_Ô

The difference is not in the different stages, there we seem to have a
similar setup, although it looked very different in the beginning. The
current (and more important) difference is in the description of the
tasks and the related permissions you gave.

-- 
wobo