Safe way to have several moderators on the forum

[rhody401]

Set up a private moderator forum, so they can all be on the same page. (and are discussing things before reacting, to be on the same page) This also gives the administrator a place to train and talk with them, inform them of system upgrades, etc.

You can set reported posts to be automatically sent there, with a discussion thread.

I am involved with a couple large forums, and that is how they do it. It works well with 6 or more moderators.

They can soft delete and move threads to the appropriate forums.

On one of them I set up a group email distribution list for system messages and forum feedback, which gets sent to the mods. (via cpanel email forwarding feature) The mods hit REPLY ALL so other mods know that someone fielded the question, and sees the response.

They have READ ONLY access to the user file, but not to passwords.

Rhody