User blog comment:Batran99/FallorAutumn 2016 Staff Polls/@comment-26047466-20160914011514/@comment-26031225-20160915023150

Not really, everyone who got promoted to Dicussions Moderator needed to have Chatmod rights before (or at least I don't remember any case of someone getting Dicussions Mod without being chatmod before)

Also, Disturbed and Batran have stated that they are now enforcing the new "form" for promotions (Chatmod --> Discussions Moderator --> Content Moderator --> Admin)