How Do you correctly make MODERATORS?

someone told me to change the mysql data in

profiles->role to 2 for moderator and 3 for admin

I tried this and the newly created moderators could not log onto their accounts.

there passwords only worked when profiles->role was set back to 1.

what is the correct way to make a site moderator? or another admin?

anyone?

please help

you could create a Membership Profile that has the correct edit settings and apply them to the needed profiles

Deanos tools. allows you to assign anyone admin rights. For creating Moderators, I do it by creating a 'moderator' membership, then assigning them access to everything. You could even create individual moderators, like forum moderators, news moderators, etc just by the permission levels you give them in membership settings.

http://www.boonex.com/m/multi-admin-access

AFAIK, there are no moderation settings by default that could be achieved by creating a membership level. 

 why not?

membership accounts can be created to edit a lot of functions of the site.