# Moderation

social.plus’s customer-centric nature ensures that security needs are kept at the forefront of the work we do. Our purpose has been to continuously develop features that are safe and ready to use. We power our moderators with tools to control and impose permissions that make their applications a safer place, for all users. We put the utmost importance on giving power to our clients to implement protocols that keep their applications healthy, safe, and compliant.

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1. The channel creator is automatically assigned as the channel moderator.
2. The previous/last moderator is not allowed to leave a community and an error is displayed.
3. The channel moderator can promote a user/member to a moderator.
4. The channel moderator can demote a moderator to a user/member.

This applies only to Live and Community channels’. This does not apply to the Conversation Channel.
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`ChannelModeration` class provides various methods to moderate the users present in the channel. You can ban/unban users, assign roles, or remove them from a user.


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