2017 Game Development Moderator Election Chat

There are also things regular users can't do at all, like edit close reasons, certain parts of the help center or election text, and redact edits. Some of those things do require approval from other moderators.

Moderators can do almost anything without peer review, that is, unilaterally; we can close stuff with one vote, we can edit things without approval, et cetera. This is particularly useful for tag handling, as we can create synonyms without needing to have a certain rep in the tag or get it approved.