Roles: member, moderator, admin
What each role inside a community can do, and who can change someone's role.
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Every community has three roles.
Member
Anyone who has joined. Members post, comment, vote, and take part.
Moderator
Appointed by the community's admin. Moderators keep the space healthy: they review reports from inside the community, remove content that breaks the rules, and manage posts.
Admin
Runs the community. Admins do everything a moderator does, plus edit the community's profile, rules, and settings, and appoint or remove moderators.
Who can change a role
A community admin can promote a member to moderator, and demote a moderator back to member. That is the extent of it.
An admin cannot create another admin, and cannot demote a fellow admin. Adding a second admin is a platform-admin action. This is deliberate: if an admin could promote and demote admins freely, one compromised account could take the community over from the inside.
There is also a last admin rule — the final remaining admin cannot be demoted or step down, because it would leave the community with nobody able to run it.
Roles are per community
Being an admin of one community gives you no standing in any other. Platform-wide roles (moderator, platform admin) are separate and are granted by the GOLE Network team.
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