# Relationships between users

The reluser Table

The reluser table is used to track special relationships between accounts, such as community maintainers/moderators and their communities, which communities a user is allowed to post to, and which users are banned from commenting in specific journals. These relationships are defined as a single character in the database:

A

  targetid can administrate userid as a community maintainer

B

  targetid is banned in userid, either in comments, or from posting, if userid is a shared or community account

P

  targetid can post to userid

M

  targetid can moderate the community userid

N

  targetid is preapproved to post in userid without moderation