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View submission: Making it easier to host events
The current thinking is opening this up to all users (or maybe even approved submitters) would increase mod workload and this is an non-starter. We may be being too conservative here though. **How could you see using approved submitters helping here? Any counter points or concerns? Do we really need another mod permission?**
Comment by 24grant24 at 26/09/2018 at 18:56 UTC
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I think I was maybe viewing these tools in too limited a scope, as if they are permanently only going to be available to mods. If users will also eventually be able to use some of these as well (individuals scheduling posts, user curated collections) then I don't think there would need to be any change to the current mod permissions.
Comment by Bainos at 27/09/2018 at 14:10 UTC
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I can think of two different use cases.
/r/anime has a bot account co-managed by mods and a small number of trusted users. This bot could use collections, but we can't give it mod permissions or visibility of the moderation logs, removed posts and modmails. Giving collections to approved submitters would solve this problem.
We also have tournaments and rewatches, which are structured series without mod supervision. To make it work, we would probably need something more fine-grained (such as giving individual users control of "their own" collection), otherwise this will become unmanageable. I don't think approved submitters would help in that aspect.
Comment by shiruken at 26/09/2018 at 20:32 UTC
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Specifically for AMAs it seems like the option to schedule a post with the guest's account without moderator permissions would be nice. Perhaps add a permission level for approved submitters?