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MSC2815: Proposal to allow room moderators to view redacted event content #2815

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Add implementation note about server admin privileges
Signed-off-by: Tulir Asokan <tulir@maunium.net>
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tulir committed Oct 10, 2020
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Expand Up @@ -29,6 +29,13 @@ Clients should still always remove content when receiving a redaction event,
but if the user has sufficient power, the client may show a button to re-fetch
and display the redacted event content.

### Implementation notes
Some server implementations have implementation-specific concepts of "server
admins". Such servers should allow server admins to bypass the power level
checks involved in viewing redacted events. However, like other similar
implementation details, there won't be any standard way for clients to
determine if they can view a redacted message through server admin privileges.

## Alternatives
### Separate key in power levels
Instead of reusing the `redact` power level, a new key could be introduced.
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