You already know how to use the permissions area of the Administrator Panel to make a user a moderator; let’s look at what else you can do. If you remember, user permissions are accessible through the Permissions link under the User Admin section:

You see that along with setting the moderator status here, you can also specify user permissions for each forum (in other words, specify forum permissions that apply to a specific user only). Note that you can use this option only for private forums; for all other types of forums, the forum permissions are applied and the user permissions cannot override them.

In the previous section, we created The Dudes forum as a private forum, so now in the user permission control area, we can allow or disallow a user from accessing the private forum. Allowing access means that this user becomes a private member and can do whatever private members...