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I am not sure how many people need or would use it, but I was wondering if there was a simple way of creating an advanced moderator. I want the moderator to be able to manipulate the forums within a specific category but not have full admin rights such as editing users or creating categories. I guess more like a Category Moderator.
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What, specifically, would their additional abilities be? Changing the forum name seems about the only thing they can't currently do. "I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.”. 
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They would have the ability to create forums under their specific category. I think more of a category moderator and not a forum moderator. They just need to be able to add and remove their own forums under the specific category that they own or are in charge of maintaining.
Is this something they can already do that I am overlooking?
Thanks for the quick response!
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There isn't currently a system to do what you ask. Basically the next level is admin. I'm not how much this is needed... you could always implement it. "I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.”.
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I'm actually needing something similiar, a step less than a Board Admin which can do everything a Board User can except for membership but access to pretty much all other features.  "It's a case of RTFM.. the only problem being we don't have a manual!" When I post FP:Mek in a topic, I'm leaving my footprint there so I can track it once I get into coding/supporting. (Yes I stole this off Ederon  )
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OK. So atleast I am not alone. Since I need this functionality, I will start writing it and share my results. However, I currently have 1.9.3 pulled down from SVN and am working on using the AD membership provider with the SQL Role Provider. I know it's off topic, but is anyone doing anything with that because if so, I will stop working with that and implement the changes for this.
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You can't assign admins to specific CATEGORIES, but you can to specific BOARDS. So if you create several boards, and then put one category in each, would that achieve what you want?
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Velox, that would only work for me if the people on the board could still see all the other forums on the other boards. I don't really want to break it into different boards. My problem is that this is an internal forum for a company and each category in the forum needs to be moderated by a specific group within the company and then there will be an overall moderator. There are currently only a small section of categories, but as this gets rolled out outside of the pilot group, if 1 or 2 people had to do maintenance of all the forums and subforms within all the categories it would be a nightmare. So i was hoping to have a level of privileges that would allow for 1 or 2 people to create the categories and then designate someone to be a Category Moderator or super moderator or whatever you want to call them for that newly created category and they could do what they wanted in that specific section.
I know this probably isn't what most people need or what, so i will be writing it if anyone else wants it later. I plan on doing it by adding a bunch more access flags, so maybe they will be integrated into the build anyway for more granular control, but if not, that's fine too. This product has been a lifesaver for me so i will gladly take it how it is and mold it into what i need.
Thanks for the suggestion though!
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