Admins, Editors, and Moderators

This website is about participation and individual and community action. If you're logged in as a user of this site, you can create and edit your own content in the form of Blogs, Forum posts, comments on various pages, and Wiki pages, to name a few.

There are also three special roles assigned to users who can create, modify, and administer content all throughout this webiste: Admins (Administrators), Editors, and Moderators.

Note that most of the content on this site not generated by our community of users is primarily written by Editors.

These special roles each has a corresponding "badge," so you can tell at a glance who has which role(s) on this site. You'll see badges under a user's picture. The badges and their corresponding roles are shown below.

Moderators have the ability to:

• Edit and delete Forum topics.
• Moderate posts and comments.

Editors can do everything a Moderator can do and also have the ability to:

• Edit and delete Blog entries.
• Make posts "sticky".
• View user locations and user relationships.
• Edit and delete the content of page and wiki entries.
• Upload files to the site.
• Access voting statistics.

Admins can do everything an Editor can do and also have the ability to:

• Administer comments, forums, and notifications.
• Administer users, user locations, user relationships, permissions, and all signups.
• Edit and delete almost any content on the site.
• Configure the site.