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Katie ([personal profile] katieastrophe) wrote in [site community profile] dw_docs2009-03-27 07:03 pm

Maintainer/Moderator/Administrator in Communities

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?
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[staff profile] denise 2009-03-27 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
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.