Who is what?
Postline v6.1.30, the software controlling this bulletin board system, assigns different levels of authorization to trusted members basing on the member's "rank" field. If the rank literally matches a certain set of predefined words, the member's granted the corresponding access rights. Of course, only those members who are already ranked as administrators, may change a member's rank from the corresponding profile form. The only exception to that rule is for the very first account that was ever registered for this installation: that account is associated with a logical ID (internal progressive number) of 1, and corresponds to the community manager. Postline is explicitly programmed to never allow changes to the first account's rank, so that it couldn't be changed, on intention or by accident, and there will always be at least one member having appropriate rights to entirely control the board. To conclude, any literal string, placed in the rank field, but which does not match any of the following:

Admin ranks: admin, administrator, manager
Mod. ranks: mod, moderator, powercat

...has no effect on the member's access rights (which remain those of a normal member), so there's no need for a regular member to be ranked as «member», although that's the default literal rank for each and every newly registered account.
The Community Manager...
Rank: manager, account's logical id: strictly 1

Alex, community's founder and manager, has full administration rights over the boards: the access rights of a manager are exactly the same as those of an administrator, and furthermore, the manager's account is fully protected against deletion and access rights variations: admins can delete other admins, or undub them from their charge; the manager's rank, instead, cannot be changed, and the corresponding account cannot be deleted. There can be only one manager account: it's always the very first member who registers an account in a fresh installation of this community engine, so, this is typically the person who sets up the community in the first place, and often is someone who has direct access to the disk space of the server hosting the community.

The Administrators...
Ranks: admin, administrator
Apart from the manager, we have 6 administrators.
In alphabetical order:
  1. Cryoburner
  2. Peterpaul kl h
  3. Raptorjedi
  4. Ryan
  5. Skinnymon
  6. Xenomorph

Administrators, or admins, are the people who can create, delete, rename, lock and unlock, whole forums. They can also delete members at will, change members' ranks, alter all aspects of their profile informations. They can ban members and entire IP address ranges from logging in and registering new accounts. In a nutshell, they can do anything, including wiping out the whole community database, so, if a member got to be ranked as an administrator, surely it means the community trusts him/her. They often feel the pressure of their responsibilities, so please try to be kind to them.

Admins list last updated: August 28, 2008 22:50

The Moderators...
Ranks: mod, moderator, powercat
Complessively, we have 6 moderators.
In alphabetical order:
  1. Arrowgrab
  2. Chad
  3. Megagun
  4. Pomelos
  5. Shadowlord
  6. Stargazer

Moderators are the people who watch over other people for most of the time: their ideal duty is that of monitoring anything, everywhere, in search for broken rules. Should they spot something that's not quite fitting, they may change others' posts, kick out (and keep away) people for some time (and trust me, it's annoying), delete or move whole threads, split them in more parts to resolve off-topicism, and so on. Oh, they can also change side-bars' links and edit home threads, and inspect some classified informations, none of which really spoiling your privacy, in an attempt to track returning troublemakers. Oh, then, normally those who manage communities don't have ways to identify your strictly personal informations, such as your name, or from which exact place you're accessing the site. Instead, national authorities are there for this: your last login datetime and your IP address are in most cases enough for identification, and Postline does take note of both those informations.

Moderators list last updated: August 28, 2008 22:50

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