I have downloaded and installed the latest version of "Add More Members Groups".

But I have noticed if you go into a members profile as admin, and try to give that member another status in the drop down menu. You have the option missing now to make him a standard Moderator. The option is there to make him either  Global Moderator or Admin, and any of the other Members Groups you created.

Also if you create a new Category and try to make it so only a Moderator or a Global Moderator has access to the boards in it. Again there is no option there to choose "Moderator". Like before the Admin,Global Moderator and Members Groups created can be choosen as access given. But the standard Moderator choice seems to be missing when you create a new Category.

So why then in the Members Groups does it show Admin, Global Moderator and Moderator" with different stars against there names. When it seems the Global Moderator has taken the place of the Moderator now after the Mod is installed. Should the Moderator option not have been removed from the Control Panel in the admin settings. So it only showed Admin and Global Moderator there in the Members Groups. Because its all a bit confusing when you see 3 listed there. When in relality you can onbly choose either Admin or Global Moderator now.

Standard Moderators are only listed in the Add More Membergroups admin area so you can have control over how they are displayed within the threads (number/type of stars etc.).

Because a Moderator is only a moderator on specific boards. For moderators to be a choice in the user profile the choices would have be:
Moderator--BoardA
Moderator--BoardB
Moderator--BoardC
etc.

Lets look at those four groups that cannot be deleted:

Moderator: this isn't a membergroup, because as said above, this is assigned per board. Just because a person is a moderator of one board, doesn't mean they get moderator access everywhere.

Newbie: this isn't really a membergroup either, because it's the default group displayed if the user doesn't belong to any of the other groups listed.

Administrator and Global Moderator: even though these look like membergroups, and are assigned in the same way, these are not actually membergroups either - they are control groups! These are groups of users who have access to certain administrator functions throughout the board, extending far beyond the normal scope of the ordinary membergroups.

I fully understand what your trying to say, and point out about the members groups, and the Moderator thing.

But while there may be a good case as to why the Moderator option should not be in a members profile. Because you would also have to assign to which board he covers. (Mod could sort that out)

I do not agree on only allowing certain members groups access the Categorys created. This is why!

In terms of power, you have!

1. Admin
2. Global Mod
3. Moderator

So you should be able to create Categorys that only give Admin and Global Mods access. And Categorys that give Admin, Global Mod, Moderators access.

But for this to be the case, there would have to be the option to make a category Moderator accesss only. Not as it stands now were if you choose Global Mod, it allows both Moderators access and Glbal Mods.

Because a Global Mod is a step up from a Moderator. So why when  a category is made Glbal Mod access only, should a normal Mod be granted access. Sorry but thats wrong!

Phew!  

If you really want to restict access to moderators, I'd suggest installing the MBCO2 mod - this has the ability to use "moderator" as a control group for who can access a board, as short-hand for Administrators, Global Moderators and Moderators (of that board!)

As I said above, I suspect you previously created an additional membergroup called "Moderator" and assigned it to each of your board moderators.

You can then restrict a catagory access to allow only the membergroup "Moderator" access.


The other answer would be to use MBCO2 to restrict access to a specific board to the "moderator" control group.

As a side note, Administrators and (depending on which mod version you are using) Global Moderators automatically have access to all categories regardless of their individual access settings.