Re: Membergroup Bug
Reply #1 –
Well, after going through, I am not sure whether it is a bug anymore. I was thinking that group should be able to change his own membergroups but it should not give them an admin menu access even partially or choose global moderator group. But then, it might not be bug if this usual behaviour of that settings, right? Is it or is it not a bug?
Re: Membergroup Bug
Reply #2 –
So you went to admin > members > member groups > settings and ticked "regular members"?
Re: Membergroup Bug
Reply #9 –
That is, if you mean to give permission to all regular membergroups.
But I mean to give only to certain qualified / trusted group, which is more retrictive I think. Plus, group with restricted access (count group is already excluded) should still be out of the list as it should be considered as higher in rank e.g. Open > Requestable > Restricted > Global Moderator. Paid group should be out of the list too. Seeeing this, if assign to certain trusted regular membergroup, they make change / add / reduce their open / requestable groups (e.g. fan club / car owner / school alumni etc).
Re: Membergroup Bug
Reply #11 –
Lols. The problem at the first place was regular membergroup can be assigned with that power. It is fine for the global moderator group to be given that authority but definitely not regular membergroup. That is the bug.
Re: Membergroup Bug
Reply #13 –
Well, the functions and settings are already in there by default. If it is useless or dangerous, better take them out.
Re: Membergroup Bug
Reply #14 –
I'm not sure its a bug, but it may not be obvious what "power" you are assigning when you check that box.
The example is
Go to Admin -> Members -> MemberGroups -> Settings Then add "regular members" to the "Groups allowed to change membergroups"
This will then allow any regular member the ability to go to their or anyone's profile and assign members as Global Moderators. Yikes!
We may feel that it should not be possible for a member to assign any group membership to a level that is > than your current level of permissions. For example if you were a manager at a company you can't promote someone to be a VP.
The problem is, I think at least, is that the permissions system other than Admin and maybe Global Moderator, does not really know what groups are "powerful" since an Admin can create a Membergroup called Noobs and assign it as an admin, the system does not really know that Noobs is greater than regular members or even global moderator.
So could be dangerous if it was not was you intended. Maybe a warning that any member groups with this permission can assign any member on the forum to any of the listed groups.