Why can a moderator ban an owner?

Not "the" owner, as in last or sole owner. But yes, a moderator with the Ban Members privilege can ban all the other moderators and all the owners but one.

That "but one" is sometimes a saving grace, but if the rogue mod is clever they may choose to ban all but an inactive owner. So under the present circumstances it is important to make sure that all of your current group owners can be contacted and will respond appropriately if a moderator goes rogue.

That detail notwithstanding, I agree that it is a bug (design error, oversight, call it what you will) to allow any moderator to ban any owner. In fact I'd go further, and say that a moderator should not be able to ban other moderators either. Alas, this bug is very old.

I tried this both ways just now. It seems if there is a single owner, a moderator can not ban them. If there is more than one owner, a moderator can ban one of them. Yahoo should have a prevention for this, but as it stands the best way to prevent it is not to give moderators the ban privilege.

I had this happen to me. Luckily the co-owner was able to reinstate me and we got rid of that moderator. But it's a shame not to be able to allow mods to ban regular members - just not owners and I agree, not other mods either. That should be the owners' prerogative.

This is an old problem. I have complained about it before on one of the Yahoo forums but it doesn't seem to be high priority to Yahoo.

Actually, this is not the only bug by Yahoo. There have been endless complaints by users, which the Admin. have been absentee about, and which is why the quality of questions and answers have degraded. The saving graces which keep some people here, is firstly, because of well-chosen key words. I.E. you're sometimes able to find a needle-in-haystack helpful answer simply because there's such a large database of answers, it increases the odds statistically. Secondly, because (so far) Yahoo hasn't forced people to sign up with a Facebook sign-in the way Wiki does, or the way YouTube links to gmails.

Since there's such absentee admins. my wish is that Ixquick should expand not just into private mail, but also into ixquickAnswers, and ixquickVideos. In which case, my #1 suggestion would be - don't allow your average Jane & Joe to be the cause of post-deletion with the mere swipe of a mouse.

For crying out loud, just follow Amazon's example, and invisibilize the question after a minimum of XX members report it - but allow it to be Searchable, and allow the public to make it visible to themselves - just the way Amazon offers.

I've seen for myself that some Re-Visibilized comments on Amazon were actually informative tangents which I myself appreciated. Even if the majority out there refuses to tolerate tangents, that doesn't mean I do.