SMF Global Moderators Permissions

Having Global Moderators on your forum can help you
as an Admin since they can take of a lot of day today
matters, like moving posts to the correct board or
deleting spam from the forum. With SMF you need
to pay a little extra attention when setting up the
permissions for Global Mods though.

The default settings for Global Mods are missing a
few important things that should be corrected early
on to save you a lot of work and your Mods a lot of
confusion later. GMs can not see the default General
board until you give them permission to view it. You
can fix this by simply modifying General by checking
the box beside Global Moderator and saving the new
setting by clicking the modify button at the bottom.

Next you should probably look at the Group Permissions
for Global Moderators. You can give them a wide range
of permissions that will let them do a lot more. One thing
you will want to do is make sure they have the permissions
needed to view and post attachments if you allow your
regular members to do so. By default that permission is
not checked.

Depending on how comfortable you are with it, you
can also give you Global Moderators some access
to your Admin panel. This can come in handy if you
will be away for an extended period of time but don’t
want to temporarily promote someone to full Admin.
Just remember to give them what they will most
likely need and not give them access to something
where they might accidentally damage something.

If you add any new mods to your forum make sure you
check your Global Moderators permissions too. On occasion
the members will have the needed permissions to use the
new mods by default but the Global Moderators won’t.