How do I limit Super Moderator from doing mass moves and prunes?

[RobFerrari]

I want all the funtionality of the super moderator, except no mass moves and prunes?

Thanks,
rob

[Wayne Luke]

You make them moderators and remove those permissions. Supermoderators have permissions to do every moderator function.

[RobFerrari]

You make them moderators and remove those permissions. Supermoderators have permissions to do every moderator function.

Where exactly do you do this. I want them to still be able to delete and move single posts, just not mass moves.

I looked under vB options, view permissions, and forum permissions, but I can't find it.

Thanks,
rob

[Steve Machol]

Move them the the Mod group, then edit their individual permissions:

Admin CP -> Forums & Moderators -> Show All Moderators -> [edit]

Can Mass-Move Threads -> No
Can Mass-Prune Threads -> No

[RobFerrari]

Move them the the Mod group, then edit their individual permissions:

Admin CP -> Forums & Moderators -> Show All Moderators -> [edit]

Can Mass-Move Threads -> No
Can Mass-Prune Threads -> No

Ahh, I think I know why I can't find it. Because it's not there! Even though I set a test user to the "Moderator" group, there are no users showing up under Show All Moderators. However, when I login with this test user I have the moderator permissions. Hmm, any idea. I'm on b7. Thanks.

[Steve Machol]

You need to make them Moderators of the specific forums.

[RichM]

This was an issue for me also. I could have done what Steve suggested i guess, though if i did that then i could make a mistake at any time without realizing it. Thus some mods could end up with the power to mass move/prune. As my board is fairy big, i did not want to take the risk.

My main reason for wanting to remove these features, was incase a moderators account got stolen, these features would have given the stealer a quick method to delete all the threads and posts.

The best way of dealing with this is to remove the links from the index file in the modcp. It is EASY to do. I am a newbie when it comes to PHP and i managed to do it without any problems at all.

The other thing you could do without editing any code at all, is to DELETE thread.php from the modcp. (The links will still show, though they won't work)
Also if you are going to remove the links, i suggest deleteing thread.php as well.

Here is what my boards modcp looks like without those links. (i added a few others from the admincp, edited the code slighltly so that it would work for mods)

[Steve Machol]

Actually that's not necessary for vB3. If he does what I suggested, the Thread Move and Prune functions will not show up for this Mod in the Mod CP.

[zylstra]

But then how do you allow a moderator to moderate all forums? Do you have to Forum Manager -> Add Moderator for each forum? I have hundreds of forums.

[Zachery]

Add them to each category moderators filter down