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User Roles in Talk

We have four preset roles in Talk:

Commenter

  • A standard community member
  • Could receive a badge (eg. ‘Subscriber’) via a custom newsroom Plugin Recipe
  • No moderation abilities
  • No configuration abilities

Staff

  • A standard community member
  • Receives a Staff badge when they comment
  • Comments are automatically approved
  • No moderation abilities
  • No configuration abilities

Moderator

  • A standard community member
  • Receives a Staff badge when they comment
  • Comments are automatically approved
  • Has full moderation privileges
  • Can configure individual articles via the Configure tab on the article page
  • No site-wide configuration abilities

Administrator

  • A standard community member
  • Receives a Staff badge when they comment
  • Comments are automatically approved
  • Has full moderation privileges
  • Can configure individual articles via the Configure tab on the article page
  • Can configure site settings via the Configure tab in the moderation interface