If you're a super-moderator of a category, the forum mod-log now gives you three extra action panels at the top that apply across every forum in the category at once — Suspend, Permanent Ban, and Shadow Ban.
Where
- Click Mod Tools on the category page (
/forums/category/<slug>) — new button, visible only to super-mods + admins. Takes you into a forum mod-log inside that category. - Or land on any forum mod-log (
/forum/<id>/mod-log) in a category you super-mod. The category-level panels render at the top.
How it differs from forum-scope
- Scope: one action restricts the user in every forum under the category. Use it when the pattern spans multiple forums in your category, not just one.
- Templates are scoped: "Category: Spam — 24 hours", "Category: Pattern repeat — 1 week", "Category: Permanent — exhausted ladder", etc. Each body says "across every forum in the <Category Name> category".
- Escalation priority is bumped. Forum-scope actions create a normal-priority report; category-scope actions create a high-priority report so Sysops see them faster.
- Regular forum moderators see the active category-level restrictions list on the mod-log but not the action panels. They can see what you've done without being able to add to it or lift it.
Same discipline as forum-scope
- User-facing reason required for Suspend + Ban (not for Shadow — target never sees it).
- Moderator note required for all three — internal context for Sysops reviewing the auto-escalation.
- Sessions are not touched. The target keeps site-wide access and can still post in forums outside this category.
- Every action gets posted to /forums/privilege-use via the audit log.
Lifting a category restriction
The "Category-level restrictions" table at the top of the mod-log has a Lift button next to each active row for super-mods + admins. Same button handles suspend / ban / shadow.
