About organization moderators
Sometimes it's necessary to block a contributor, or to set up interaction limits for your organization, or for individual repositories. As an organization owner, you can perform these tasks, but you may want to delegate these tasks to other members of your organization. You can do this by assigning an organization member, or a team, to the moderator role.
Organization moderators can:
- Block and unblock users from the organization. For more information, see Blocking a user from your organization.
- Manage organization interaction limits. For more information, see Limiting interactions in your organization.
- Manage repository interaction limits. For more information, see Limiting interactions in your repository.
- Hide comments in all public repositories owned by the organization. For more information, see Managing disruptive comments.
Making someone an organization moderator does not give them additional abilities other than those listed above. For example, someone who only has read access to a repository will not gain write access by being made a moderator.
You can add up to 10 individual people, or teams, as moderators. If you've already assigned 10 individuals and/or teams as users and you want to add more, you can group people in a moderators team and then use this to replace one or more of the existing assignments. For more information, see Creating a team.
Adding an organization moderator
- In the upper-right corner of GitHub, click your profile picture, then click Your organizations.
- Next to the organization, click Settings.
- In the "Access" section of the sidebar, select Moderation then click Moderators.
- Under Moderators, in the search field, search for and select the person or team you want to assign the moderator role. Each person or team you select will appear in a list below the search bar.
Removing an organization moderator
- In the upper-right corner of GitHub, click your profile picture, then click Your organizations.
- Next to the organization, click Settings.
- In the "Access" section of the sidebar, select Moderation then click Moderators.
- Next to the person or team you want to remove, click Remove moderator.