talk/docs/source/03-04-user-roles.md

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User Roles in Talk	/roles/

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