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#Post#: 22268--------------------------------------------------
Introduce a setting to limit the number of membergroups a user
can join...
DIR By: New_User
Date: October 30, 2019, 11:32 am
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Admins do HAVE the option of allowing membergroups on
registration. But as things stand, new users can completely
ignore this and sign up without joining any membergroup at all
or at the other end, multiple membergroups...
This becomes a problem if you want to set up a forum with
clearly defined usergroups each with their own permissions and
exclusive boards...
For example, lets say we want to call our forum 'Marriage
Counselling' and its populated with 3 different groups -
Husbands, Wives, Counsellors. Now these 3 groups will of course
have common topics of interest but other times they'll prefer
discussing things within their own group. So we create a forum
with open boards as well as membergroup-only boards.
With the current 'membergroups facility' on Createaforum there
is just a lot of extra hassle...
A user can select more than one membergroup - and this means
he/she gains the permissions of ALL membergroups he/she has
selected. Back to our example, someone in the 'Husband' group
just needs to select 'Wife' and 'Counsellor' and suddenly all
boards become viewable/accessible...
This causes havoc with forums with different membergroups and
means:
1. Admins have to instruct new users not to join multiple groups
even though they there's nothing stopping them from actually
joining multiple groups
2. Thus Admins have no other option than to keep doing random
'spot-checks' to ensure users have not selected multiple groups
3. If users still don't follow instructions (either purposely or
through carelessness) and still end up joining more than one
group, the only option left is for Admins to ban them...
4. As you can probably appreciate, points 1, 2, and 3 create
needless tension and and create extra (unnecessary) stress when
modding forums with multiple membergroups you'd like to keep
separate. If you're constantly having to remind users of forum
rules and/or snooping on them and/or banning them... then it
doesn't create a very good impression and discourages new users
from joining...
Suggestions:
*Please introduce an option where admins can prevent users
joining more than one membergroup at one time / an option that
limits the number of membergroups a user can join (this would
just save a lot of hassle)...
Or alternatively
* Even if a user joins multiple membergroups, just ensure that
selecting 'make main membergroup' means that the user can only
see boards/permissions for the membergroup selected and NOT all
membergroups they've joined
#Post#: 22273--------------------------------------------------
Re: Introduce a setting to limit the number of membergroups a
user can join...
DIR By: CreateAForum
Date: November 4, 2019, 2:06 pm
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Is this just on on registration or at any time they could join
the groups?
#Post#: 22276--------------------------------------------------
Re: Introduce a setting to limit the number of membergroups a
user can join...
DIR By: New_User
Date: November 5, 2019, 10:11 am
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--- Quote from: CreateAForum link ---
>
> Is this just on on registration or at any time they could join
the groups?
>
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Hi there, thanks for getting back to me.
As regards your question, in a forum with different
membergroups, a user can select multiple groups AT ANY TIME -
whether on registration or after.
This of course causes havoc with a forum that has been set up
with distinct membergroups to be kept separate (i.e. a forum
having boards accessible to certain membergroups but not
others).
Joining a group isn't 'mandatory' upon registration but that in
itself isn't a problem.The problem lies with the fact that if
users join multiple groups (and there's nothing stopping them
doing so) they end up gaining the permissions of all groups
they've selected.
At registration = CTRL + click to highlight/select multiple
groups - (gives you permissions for all groups you've selected)
After registration = Profile > Forum Profile > Group Membership
> Available Groups > Join Group... select multiple groups -
(gives you permission for all groups you've selected)
The button 'Make Primary Group' has absolutely no purpose/effect
other than to display the selected group name next to the
username. That's all it does!
[font=Verdana]As you can imagine, modding such a forum becomes a
nightmare as you have to constantly snoop, ban etc etc in case
some users are joining more than one membergroup in order to
gain access to boards that normally off-limits to their
membergroup.[/font]
Thanks!
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