What super-powers does SE staff have, that diamond moderators do not have?

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What super-powers do SE staff have, that diamond moderators do not?

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you mean all staff? or just certain staff? And do you mean actual implemented powers on the site or just stuff like "the sysadmin can make the database go poof" :) — Nanne, Commented Dec 10, 2012 at 16:22
I mean the actual implemented powers on the site. Otherwise they can do anything, having access to the source-code (: — gerrit, Commented Dec 10, 2012 at 16:23
I think most of their super powers exist outside the actual site — Ryathal, Commented Dec 10, 2012 at 16:28
@RobertLongson: The questions don't appear to be very closely related. The answer to that question talks about their general duties and does not mention any mod-like powers at all. — Nathan Tuggy, Commented Feb 12, 2019 at 23:50
Duplicate of meta.stackexchange.com/questions/216414/… which is a duplicate, following the link leads eventually to: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/99338/… - they have super powers (use Moderator Console, or dig deeper) but leave "moderation" to the moderators unless it's a beta site, pre pro-tem, then they moderate. If something can wait for the Moderator or the site's users then they should leave it, if is truly awful and purposeless vitriol then deletion is OK. — Rob, Commented Feb 13, 2019 at 2:38

12 revs, 8 users 37% · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-12 19:03:33Z

Not all employees have the same powers, they tend to have only those abilities they need for their job.

Some additional abilites that SE employees have are:

Invalidation of votes between users
View votes (developers and community managers only, except for their own posts)
Permanent deletion of post revisions, viewing redaction history of post revisions
Modifying the keyword blacklist for each site
Burninating (removing) tags
Placing entire sites in read-only mode
Migrating questions that are older than 60 days
Issuing network-wide suspensions and long-term suspensions (of more than a year)
Editing any help pages
Editing custom close reasons (without making a new one)
Creating post notices
Internal SEDE with more information, particularly regarding deleted content and real time access to the site database (no 7 day wait)
Merge user accounts.

Of course, any SE employee with database access can do far more if they want to.

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