More Powers to Usergroup leaders

by **Kotaro** on Sat Jan 12, 2008 4:59 pm

I find it would make many group leaders lives so much easier if we had more mod-like powers (topic locking, editing, etc.). My suggestion is a simple one: give usergroup leaders the position of limited mod, so that we can better control our groups.

Also, make it possible to make sub-forums in the groups. This could provide a much more prosperous group positioning and organization for our groups.

by **KoE_Sirius** on Sat Jan 12, 2008 5:13 pm

I dont know about the sub forums,but we do need more control over posts.The group leader should be more then someone who just recruits.

by **lackattack** on Sat Jan 12, 2008 6:09 pm

This may be possible after we upgrade the forum software.

by **cena-rules** on Sat Jan 12, 2008 6:09 pm

lackattack wrote:This may be possible after we upgrade the forum software.

which will be....

by **jennifermarie** on Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:24 pm

Give him time. Lack is working very hard on this. (besides, if we wait awhile, then many bugs will be found by other sites and fixed so we won't have as many headaches....)

by **Herakilla** on Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:42 pm

i think lack said somewhere there will be a january forum update, now the question which january

by **Kotaro** on Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:44 pm

Herakilla wrote:i think lack said somewhere there will be a january forum update, now the question which january

Umm, I doubt he meant next January, since he's not really an asshole. So I'm guessing he's working on it, and it should be in by the end of the month

by **hecter** on Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:47 pm

Kotaro wrote:
Herakilla wrote:i think lack said somewhere there will be a january forum update, now the question which january

Umm, I doubt he meant next January, since he's not really an asshole. So I'm guessing he's working on it, and it should be in by the end of the month

You don't know lack then. There's a reason he has a turtle as his avatar...

by **Herakilla** on Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:53 pm

Kotaro wrote:
Herakilla wrote:i think lack said somewhere there will be a january forum update, now the question which january

Umm, I doubt he meant next January, since he's not really an asshole. So I'm guessing he's working on it, and it should be in by the end of the month :)

lol, its a joke man i wasnt serious! its a lot of work since he has to edit some of the forum code and test it and all that, all my post was was just a joke on the time between updates

by **wcaclimbing** on Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:01 pm

Kotaro wrote:
Herakilla wrote:i think lack said somewhere there will be a january forum update, now the question which january

Umm, I doubt he meant next January, since he's not really an asshole. So I'm guessing he's working on it, and it should be in by the end of the month

Last year, there was a "Christmas Update"........ that ended up being released about half way through February......

Dont get too excited about "_____ is being released on _____ day". its almost always delayed.

by **Jesse710** on Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:09 pm

cena-rules wrote:
lackattack wrote:This may be possible after we upgrade the forum software.

which will be....

That's what I was going to say :roll:

by **Jesse710** on Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:12 pm

Also by making regular members not being able to sticky topics and for you to be able to sticky one that's not yours. And Announcements!

by **Kotaro** on Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:43 pm

wcaclimbing wrote:Last year, there was a "Christmas Update"........ that ended up being released about half way through February......

Dont get too excited about "_____ is being released on _____ day". its almost always delayed.

True, we shouldn't get excited, but the point is that Link is thinking about this idea for the next update whenever it should come. And to be fair, Link has a lot on his plate, along with the others who have to update this game/forum. It's complex shit, so we should be as patient as possible

by **hecter** on Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:44 pm

Kotaro wrote:
wcaclimbing wrote:Last year, there was a "Christmas Update"........ that ended up being released about half way through February......

Dont get too excited about "_____ is being released on _____ day". its almost always delayed.

True, we shouldn't get excited, but the point is that Link is thinking about this idea for the next update whenever it should come. And to be fair, Link has a lot on his plate, along with the others who have to update this game/forum. It's complex shit, so we should be as patient as possible

Link? From Zelda?

by **Skittles!** on Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:44 pm

Link..?

Uh... Wrong game buddy. :lol:

by **Kotaro** on Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:14 pm

So I messed up a name because I'm partially intoxicated. Got a problem with it? Sue me.

by **Kotaro** on Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:55 pm

Question... Since at the top, it says there are no moderators at each of our specific areas, wouldn't it be easy to just put us as moderators to that area using the admin control panel, and just restricting our access to the team area?

by **AndyDufresne** on Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:18 pm

That's what we did originally, long ago when we first did usergroups, but we weren't so keen on having 'Usergroup Leaders/Moderators' show up in Green on the Online List, because it created confusion as to who was only a 'Usergroup Mod' and who was a 'Global Mod'.

So we'll wait until the next version of phpBB.

--Andy

by **rebelman** on Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:44 pm

AndyDufresne wrote:That's what we did originally, long ago when we first did usergroups, but we weren't so keen on having 'Usergroup Leaders/Moderators' show up in Green on the Online List, because it created confusion as to who was only a 'Usergroup Mod' and who was a 'Global Mod'.

So we'll wait until the next version of phpBB.

--Andy

this could have been solved by all real mods getting the same colour as the admins and a different colour then for the usergroup mods. This was a very, very weak reason not to do this even for a brief period of time - most usergroup leaders would love 48 hours or so to tidy up their forums.

by **AndyDufresne** on Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:47 pm

Unfortunately by making the Global Mods -- Admins...they get privy to powers they currently do not have. So that doesn't work.

We use to also cater to usergroup leaders, by providing them with moderation powers in their usergroup for a short time, but it got burdensome.

The easiest thing to do? Smile and wait til the forum upgrade, and then the usergroup leaders can do whatever they'd like in their forums.

--Andy

by **rebelman** on Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:56 pm

AndyDufresne wrote:
The easiest thing to do? Smile and wait til the forum upgrade, and then the usergroup leaders can do whatever they'd like in their forums.

--Andy

Andy i'm glad you can confirm this, the above post is the first definite confirmation of this both lack (in this thread) and twill have said they hoped this would be the case but made no definite commitments, its great to know this is now definite.

by **Jon06359** on Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:49 pm

AND be able to make an address group so that you can select that group as a whole and send everyone the same message.

Basically an adress book, where you can add certain players to. A buddy list.

THAT would help alot.

by **hecter** on Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:37 pm

Bump because of the soon-to-be-upgraded forum.

by **hecter** on Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:56 pm

Bump because of the forum upgrade. I saw some "Quick Mod" thing to make it a sticky, but that was only on my threads...

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