Deny mods the Ability to Delete posts and threads...

[Chris M]

How would I deny certain mods the ability to delete posts or threads?

I would only like to do it for certain mods though...

Satan

[Admin]

Admin CP => Forums and Moderators => Edit Moderator.

[Xenon]

hmm, in your admin-cp klick on edit next to a moderator and set
Can delete posts
to no :)

edit: grr chen you beat me again

[Chris M]

Wow...

Lol...

I thought it would be much more difficult than that lol...

Satan

[inetd]

Other question:
How to deny some Super Mod the ability to delete or edit posts?

[Chris M]

Yes...

That would be a good idea...

Satan

[Xenon]

hmm, why make him a supermod, if he can't do such things? ;)

but if you want to do so, you have to hack the ismoderator function in functions.php

[Chris M]

What would you change?

Satan

[Xenon]

change this line:
if ($supmod[ismoderator]) {
to
if ($supmod[ismoderator] && $action!="candeleteposts") {

[Chris M]

Thanks:)

Satan

[Xenon]

you'r welcome :)

[Christine]

Sorry to bump an old thread here, but I need some help with this. :)

This hack is working great with one exception.

The super mods can't delete at all, and the admins can, but only in the forums where the default permissions are set. In my private forums where I have overriden the default permissions for Admins, they can't delete now.

Any suggestions??

[Christine]

Shameless bump to see if anyone can help??

:)

[trinitym]

Okay. I noticed today while testing that when I set certain mods to moderate certain forums that they can delete admin and super mod posts as well, including my [super admin] posts. I can't see a way to fix this except by turning off their ability to delete threads and posts.

The tricky part is I'd lke for my mods to be able to delete posts and threads of all other users below them, just not anyone above and the same for super mods vs admins. Is there a possibility to create a hack for this?

Or better yet, since I'm a n00b - am I doing all this right or am I overlooking an option/permission somewhere?

Thanks!

[Xenon]

if you mean for vb2 there is a message editing hierachy hack by Logician
if you mean vb3, look into my profile for that hack :)