Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20151012235434

I want to gather some opinions. So I've been thinking lately that there should be some way for us to reward users for outstanding work with the Wiki. Normally, we just make someone an admin after like 2-4 years. But I wish there was a something in-between that, I think I have a solution.

The current list of our user rights levels goes like this: -Bureaucrats -Administrators -Regular users

However, there are three user levels in Wikia's hardware that we could utilize between regular users and Administrators: Chat moderator, Rollback, and Moderator. As Admins, we already have access to all the powers contained within those three user levels, but this would give us a chance to reward top-notch contributors, as well as test the waters to see how someone handles (limited) administrative powers.

Chat Moderator is pretty straight forward; you're given the powers to moderate the live chat room, up to and including banning disruptive users from using live chat. Not exactly a big deal, since the live chat feature never really took off for us.

Rollback is probably the most relevant for us; it gives users the ability to revert problem edits and vandalism with one click, instead of navigating through history menus and edits one by one.

Moderator is the highest level of access; it gives the user the ability to restore, remove, open and close both forum threads and message wall posts, as well as the options to manage Forum boards, move threads from one board to another, and highlight and un-highlight threads. This is also the only group that would receive the little plaque by their name on their user page.

I don't know if we'd give these out one at a time, or if we'd give a user all three at once, or what have you. I do however feel like it would be a good incentive tool, and would help us with some of the more minor duties we have on the site. 