This will have bad and good sides.
Bad
For example. There is some topic in ideas section and its regarding Cops, topic creator wants Cop reward for killing suspect to be lowered but cop comes out with some good arguements and topic owner mutes him and removes his post in order to have less cop arguements.
Good
It will be usefull for Clans/Mafias/Groups.
Solutions for any situation
Solutions to this are limiting the rights to: Lock/Unlock topic, Edit posts(Can be abused in way like this: Player1 posts somethings and topic mod changes it into "Im biggest d*ck on this world" but SMF logs last changes so it would be dealt quickly).
I think he means the topic moderator has only equal rights as the topic creator, How can he abuse then? o.0 Noone can abuse such rights I believe. Since even the topic creator can't mute/edit posters posts.
Highly Supported.
Post Merge: December 14, 2011, 10:45:23 am
I am not an expert in terms of SMF; however, I doubt that such add-on exists for it, as it would require additional data sets to be stored in the database which negatively affects its (already low) performances. An alternative solution could be that a number of trustworthy members are assigned to moderate a particular section that has topics that need sharing (for example, groups and businesses section), and that the leading members of such groups PM the moderator with the additions to the topic.
Yeah, how about just like they mention leaders/members/trial members in the topic, in the footer of the first post people leave a note with the names of topic moderators, basically giving them the same rights? And the topic mods can then pm the forum mods to make changes to the topic.