He should not be moderating any sections. His purpose or function is to approve new members (hence ADMIN access). he is excellent at that task however he just can not leave the moderating to the moderators, so we are at the point of relieving him of his duties, however I had thought it might be a fairly easy fix to drop his moderation privileges, if not then I need to find another solution.
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No, but I will look, thanks. <

Well, its generally assumed that anyone you trust enough to handle Admin-type stuff is someone you would trust enough to moderate and handle the "lesser" functions. The security is based on this sort of premise, that admin is an "escalated" privilege. Not sure if that explanation helps any ...<

Any administrator or moderator that would modify messages like that in order to spread his political agenda should have been let go a long time ago IMO.
What you're trying to do is possible, but nothing simple. Essentially you would either create another level or hard code his ID and the actions he can perform. You seem to have a unique set up over there. What is a union web site?
Here's a thought that just popped into my head. Depending on your level of expertise in ASP, you could easily demote him to a user and create a simple web form that allows him to approve members. A form that queries a list of members with a status of 0 (I think) and buttons for each row that updates their status to 1. Something rather simple like that. You could add in the code that only his userid has access to this simplistic form.<

ok I will have a look at that suggestion in the morning, thanks!!
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