[Karas]

I'm not sure if I understand what you are saying.

When you create a forum, it will take on the permissions of the parent forum , or you can specifiy independant permissions.

Whatever you set the user permissions for moderators for will affect all of them, I'm afraid, and ultimately you will still have to individually set permissions for each moderator...even if using access masks (which would be the fastest).

Now I *think* I know what you could mean here. Say you make a private forum, and have a hack where when assigning the forum permissions, you get a drop down box. If I click Moderators..a drop down box that has all the mod's names in it shows. It would simply have the function that if you click the name, they have access to the forum. That would weed out all the name hunting etc.....

Hope that made sense...and would be an interesting hack to see