Public Groups

Steveire

My profile, and everyone elses i've seen that i can remember, tells me that no one is a member of a public group. What does this mean?

steveland?

Afaik vBulletin, like most Bulletin Board software, has the ability to set special groups that can be private messaged at once or have that whole group given permissions to access certain private forums etc...

I don't think boards.ie uses this feature (or if they do there's not many people belonging to groups)

Steveire

Is that what usergroups are in boards.us?

Winters

Steveire wrote:

Is that what usergroups are in boards.us?

Same idea yes.

Moriarty

There's a number of user groups. Normal users, mods, cat mods, super mods, admins, subscribers and banned users off the top of my head.

Steveire

But then surely your pforile would list you as being in the moderators group. So far i agree with steveland?

Moriarty

/shrugs

Maybe the admins have just set it so that non-admins can't see what groups people are in. If you're a mod and a subscriber there's an extra option in the sidebar in your usercp for group memberships where you can choose which you're displayed as.

steveland?

From what I know (and this is only using my limited knowledge of the inner workings of phpBB, not vBulletin but they're fairly similar in the way things are implemented) the moderators/super mods/admins etc are usually hidden groups. Other groups (the bloggers group on boards.us for example) are public groups that people have to be a member of to have special permissions (starting a blog).

Other groups (like the moderator groups on boards.us) are locked groups that have permissions to moderate certain forums...

I assume in the configuration of boards.ie the groups Moriarty described are hidden

Redshift

This is a feature of VB which is not in use on Boards. It allows for publically joinable user groups. When they are set up you would see all the public user groups in your user CP with a button to request membership of this group beside each one. The groups can be either free to join I.E. click the button and you become a member of that group or it might require the approval of a group leader to gain membership. The user groups can be configured just like the regular user groups and can control access to forums, features or down to the colour of your username or what your tagline says, pretty much anything that can be configured at a user group level.