"Oh cool. You're a supporter! What is it that you do,... exactly?"

I usually hate hate hate making PC-related threads... Buuuuut, I was daydreaming at the library (shows how much of a life I have that I go to the library during my spare time and daydream of a Pokémon forum!) -- in the restricted section and I read something rather odd about a bit of rare magic... and I thought, perhaps, you could illuminate me. -- and came to a question after reading something I've read so many times. So, here's my question!

What do you think the primary responsibility of a moderator, a super moderator, an assistant administrator, a staff administrator, and an administrator are? Additionally, do you feel that supporters and regular members have responsibilities to uphold? If so, what are they?

Everyone: Have fun. Be nice. Follow the rules.

Regular Members: Same as above.

Supporters: Same as above. Try to be examples to other members.

Moderator: Maintain a healthy environment in your forum(s), i.e. do what you have to so that people can enjoy themselves. So, like, talk to people who are being troublesome to other members or keep discussion and interest going.

Super Moderator: Watch the moderators' backs and step into and deal with any problems they can't or aren't around to deal with.

Admins: I don't really know what they do, but I suppose I would expect their main jobs to be more... administrative. Basically negotiating all the different things that go on at PC and making the big decisions that will be best for the forum overall.

Members: Follow rules and keep forums active.
Supporters: Same as above.
Moderators: Enforce their forum rules and moderate.
Super Moderators: Enforce rules of all the forums.
Administrators: To manage site stuff (server, host, and all that).
And of course every usergroup should enjoy posting in the forums.

I just think it's the duty of everybody to try and make the forum as fun and friendly as possible. Supporters are no different from regular members I don't see why they're treated separately.

The mods just have extra powers to help make that possible, and then the admins just take care of the technical side of things. That's all there is to it imo.

Regular members: post in the threads and talk to other people as long as it's within the rules

Supporters: same as regular members except that they donated money to help PC

Mods: make sure everyone is following the rules where they moderate

Super mods: make sure everyone is following the general PC rules

Admins: same as super mods except they also do site-related activities like PC-related events and making new skins

I'm a neat freak, so I'll be using the cleaner format~ This is what I'm most used to from my past experience.

Members and Supporters: Supporters are the same as regular members; they don't have any moderation powers or anything and aren't exempt from any rules just because they donated. So yeah, their main "job" as members is to help keep the activity flowing, follow the rules, and have fun.

Moderators: Make sure their respective section(s) aren't cluttered with unneeded threads/posts and, of course, help members out! The community's most important since the forum can't live without it, so I feel like helping people is the best part of being a moderator. I tried to prioritize helping people when I was still a mod on BMGf and would always feel very fulfilled when I did so. XD Helping members is a given for any staff member though, so I'll just assume everyone is aware and exclude it from the rest of my post.

Super Moderators: They're super moderators because they have more experience with the part of the forum they work for, so they should make the bigger decisions. Have the final say in things that would have a bigger effect on the section(s) they moderate, with the input of the moderators of the same section of course. Other than that, they're pretty much the same as mods imho.

Admins: Work their "magic" on the whole forum rather than just one or two sections aka make decisions that'd affect the entire forum rather than just a select few sections, like changing how the infraction system works and etc (looong sentence ftw). I see the types of admins here as two sides of the same coin.

Members: Pretty much what everyone has said, just contribute to activity, make the best of their time here and follow the rules.

Supporters: Well Supporters aren't really higher up on the 'forum ladder' than members, since all they did to attain their rank was donate to PC, however, donation does make a bit of a statement, in my opinion. Most users that donate have already integrated themselves into and started to enjoy PC, so they take the next step and donate to better enjoy the forums, so I'd say that most [but not all] supporters generally enjoy PC and have an idea of how things go at PC. Even though some users lack the resources to donate [I had to win a contest to get my supporter status], most that were able to donate, have and generally understand the forums better. So as Toujours said, I guess you can tend to expect more maturity in posts and reports.

Moderators: Moderators usually have to enforce the rules of their section, but also find ways to make it active and interesting, as well as connecting with the users that frequently post in their section, pretty much everything user Loki said.

Super Moderators: Super Moderators seem to watch over moderator behavior and look out for potential ones, I guess, in addition to that, I'd say they deal with large-scale forum issues, enforce the rules in all of the forums and handle all unhandled reports. They seem to be very in-touch with the forum.

Admins: Mainly admins just do things for the betterment of PC, such as installing plugins, coordinating events or adding new emblems to the database, as well as performing the tasks of the Super Moderators, when there aren't any S-Mods around.