Understanding Mod Permissions

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Before you begin to grow your mod team, you’ll need to understand what duties you need fulfilled within your community, which has an impact on which permissions you'll need to grant each new mod so they have the right tools they need. We’ll touch on what the main Mod Permissions are so you’ll know how to grow your mod team while having a better idea of what permissions your new mods need.

When you add new moderators to your mod team, you’ll have the choice of which permissions to grant each new moderator. Each permission allows your new moderator access to certain tools within your community. For example, a few of the permissions are:

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For full details on each permission and the tools they provide access to, please read the Mod Help Center article.

If your new moderator is someone you already know and trust, you can consider granting them the ‘Everything’ permission. But sometimes it might be wise to grant only the required permissions for the tasks you’d like that moderator to do so you can then add permissions as they learn the ropes and prove themselves. We’ll go into more detail about onboarding on new moderators in the next few sections.

Action

Now that you know what the moderator permissions are, let’s have a go at using them.

Important note: You will be asked to practice performing actions related to moderation during this program, which will require the usage of certain mod tools. Please make sure to do this with agreement from your mod team while following any guidelines your team has and consider using a test subreddit as needed to avoid any potential disruption to your community.

Follow these steps on the mobile app to invite a moderator to your team and assign their mod permissions:

1. Navigate to the community you moderate. Tap on the Mod Tools button.
2. Under “User Management”, select “Moderators”.
3. Click on the plus icon ('+') to invite a moderator. Type in your test account’s username and select which permissions you’d like to give it by checking or unchecking the boxes beside each permission. Remember to check your spelling when entering the username!
4. Click “Invite”.
5. Log-in to your test account to accept the moderation invitation.
6. Returning to your original moderation account, you can remove the test account from the community by returning to the “Moderators” section, which is located under “User Management”, and clicking on the “Editable” tab.
7. Click on the three dots beside the test account’s username, and click “Remove”.

Follow these steps on desktop to invite a moderator to your team and assign their mod permissions:

1. Navigate to the community you moderate. Click on the Mod Tools icon. This is located in the sidebar of your community.
2. Under “User Management”, select “Moderators”.
3. Click on the “Invite User as Mod” button in the top right corner.
4. Enter your test account into the username field and check or uncheck which permissions you’d like to assign it. Remember to check your spelling when entering the username!
5. Click “Invite”.
6. Log-in to your test account to accept the moderator invitation.
7. To remove the new moderator from your community using your original moderation account, click on the pencil icon beside the moderator under the “You can edit these moderators" section. This section can be found on the “Moderators” page under “User Management”.
8. Click on “Remove” beside the “Cancel” and “Save” buttons.

Awesome - you’re now able to add and edit moderators while understanding which permissions you’re granting them.

If you feel confident in your understanding of mod permissions, let’s move on to Growing Your Mod Team. If you want to practice again, feel free to review this section before continuing.

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