Maintainer/Moderator/Administrator in Communities

[katieastrophe]

I'm in the process of editing /userinfo.bml and have got to the label for naming $persons_running_community. A discussion was started on the Wiki, but it seems to have drifted off with no consensus being reached.

Personally, of the three mentioned in the subject line, I would prefer to use Administrator, or at a push, Moderator, but we could also use something else entirely. Thoughts?

Comments

[denise]

I like Administrator, eliminating the distinction between maintainer/moderator and moving it instead to a new community-control model.

"Maint" and "mod" were always horribly confused on LJ, and it caused some serious issues, support-wise. I say we call anyone with any community admin privileges an "admin", and move from there.

[foxfirefey]

I'm all for community admin.

[ysobel]

for all that "mod" is common lingo, I would vote *against* it. (partly because there's the technical aspect -- managing the moderation queue -- and also because the semantic connotations don't always apply. not all communities are moderated.)

admin seems like the best option to me, unless someone comes up with something better...

[niqaeli]

I would very much prefer Community Administrator; I'm sure it'll get abbreviated in the wild to something like comm admin but I find it far less ambiguous than anything else. And I doubt it'll conflict with other instances of Admin(istrator), since it's going to always be within the context of a community.

[ivorygates]

Yes, Administrator. Because all comms will have one, while some comms will also have a mod or a maint as well (i.e., people the comm is calling that, with sub-admin or even admin privs but a differently-conceptualized workload). So gophorit.

[ivorygates]

Actually, having taken a look at the Wiki discussion, I would now like to cast a vote for "Lord God of Hosts" as the new terminology...

[zorkian]

Awesome reply. Just saying.

[ivorygates]

*bows*

Praise from Caesar is praise indeed.