Administrators and Forum Staff

[forrestcupp]

I'm just curious. What is the difference between Administrators, Forum Staff, etc?

[maniacmusician]

I'm just curious. What is the difference between Administrators, Forum Staff, etc?
forum staff are people like moderators. They basically keep the atmosphere of the forum in good shape. They have powers to move threads around, merge threads, edit posts, etc.

Administrators are responsible for the upkeep of the site. They can do stuff like modify the look of the forum or the way in which the forum software behaves. They also have the power to ban users and heavy stuff like that.

[ComplexNumber]

They also have the power to ban users and heavy stuff like that.moderators do too, but we have less control over it. for us, that facility is almost exclusively reserved for spammers to stop them in their tracks.

[bapoumba]

@ forrestcupp: moved your thread to "Forum Feedback & Help" ;)

[ubuntu-geek]

The administrators are also on the forums council. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ForumCouncil

[forrestcupp]

@ forrestcupp: moved your thread to "Forum Feedback & Help" ;)

A great visual aid to illustrate the point.

[KiwiNZ]

The moderators are here to make this a great site for you the members . And they are doing a great job.

They have another function , they harrass the Admins :p

The Admins well we do lunch :)