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I am considering giving one of my moderators administrative rights. If I do that, will it show in the forums? I wouldn't want anyone to get jealous, so if the administrator flag shows on their name, is there a way to remove it?

Thanks. Bushhog

You can edit that person's profile and change their title back to Moderator.

Actually, in my experience, you can't. Their TITLE is determined by their number of posts (or a custom one), but their status (as user, moderator or administrator) is a separate setting.

If you don't want them to get displayed as an Adminstrator, you'd have to edit Online.php (for the online display), Userlist.php, and postlist.php, showflat.php and showthreaded.php (for display of their Admin tag).

It would be a royal mess, with more than a bit of hacking. If you're really that concerned about jealousy, go for it (or email me with questions, i'll help you out if I can), but it's a lot of work either way.

Thanks,

-Steve Estes (Tyriel)
Forum Mod and Member, Guardians of Destiny, www.GofD.org
AIM: EnderW271 ICQ: 6854118
Email: destes@ix.netcom.com

You could also create a generic "admin" login. The moderator could login as the generic admin if they needed any admin fuctions... yet their name stays as Moderator.

We use something like this.. then put it invisible in Who's Online... so people don't figure out that it's the "main admin".

Thanks to all who answered. I really appreciate it. I like Josh Pet's idea the best (easiest for one who doesn't understand hacking). <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

Thanks. Bushhog