Above the level of individual contributions to discussion, the notion of a conversational role is relevant both for characterizing the rights and responsibilities an individual has within an interaction as well as the configuration of conversational behaviors the person is likely to engage in.
it is not surprising that prior work has revealed that the process of becoming a Wikipedia moderator is associated both with changes in language use and in the roles editors play on the talk pages (Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil et al., 2012).