Making Title for Moderators "Moderator"

[moogy]

I've set up a few moderators on my board, and I want them to have "Moderator" under their member name, so, I set up a Rank for the Moderator usergroup. So, now Moderator does appear under their username.

However, appearing above Moderator is the general User Title as well. I only want "Moderator" to show up under their names, is there any way to do this? I'm a bit confused by Titles, Ranks and how they are defined and what they actually do.

Thanks!

[peterska2]

In the usergroup manager for moderators there is a field to enter a default user title, enter Moderator here and remove the rank. It will then show Moderator as their user title and not the post count related one.

[moogy]

I tried doing that already, but, the Moderator title does not show up for forum moderators. The user title based on posts is what shows only.

[peterska2]

Have you put your moderators into the moderator usergroup?

[moogy]

I went to Forum Manager, Add Moderator and in "Make Moderator a Member of" I checked "Moderator." I left "Change Moderator's Primary Usergroup to" set at the default, DO NOT CHANGE USERGROUP.

Do I have to change the usergroup of each Mod in addition to making them Forum Moderators?

Thanks!

[peterska2]

Yes, if you change them to be in the moderator usergroup then you can use the usergroup user titles and HTML markup for them.

[moogy]

Thanks, Peter, that's been a big help.

One other question: If I want to give Moderators of certain forums a slightly different title (like Mod Sports, Mod Entertainment), do I need to set up seperate Moderator usergroups for each Forum, or is there an easier/better way?

[peterska2]

You can individually set the user title per member, but if you have a number of moderators that you want to have the same title, it will be easier to create a new usergroup.

When you create a new usergroup there is the option to base permissions off another group, base the permissions off the existing moderators usergroup and they will have identical permissions, otherwise you need to apply permissions per forum and if you have more than about 3, it becomes a tedious and long winded job.

[Steve Machol]

You can allow them to use Custom Titles.