I'm writing all of you to let you Journal owners know that the permissions system on them has been completely overhauled so that no one can accidentally delete the entire forum of the web . However, due to the sheer volume of work that was done, I need for each and every one of you to check behind me and make sure I organized the permissions correctly. So here's what you should have:
- Each journal will have a usergroup. Anyone in that usergroup has limited moderating potential (more below)
- Journal Owners can add more "moderators" to their journal.
- Journal Owners/Moderators can post new topics, make stickies, make announcements, and split threads.
- You CANNOT edit, delete, nor move posts (nor entire topics). PM a "real moderator" if that is necessary.
And here's what I need for you guys to make sure of:
- You can "moderate" (see above) your own journal.
- You CANNOT "moderate" anyone else's journal (the journals directly above and below yours might have gotten caught in while I was updating the perms. I was working at 3AM on this...).
If you find a problem, PM me.
One final note, journals that have not been used in a year or more have been marked "Inactive" and are locked. If you need for your journal to be unlocked, please PM me (as I have yet to give the specs for the new perm setup to anyone else).
EDIT: I am aware (As Robert pointed out to me) that journal moderators can lock and unlock and otherwise manipulate Global Announcements. I am looking for a way to prohibit this, but, for now, I guess I can trust all of you not to lock the global announcements