Public groups?

[olaf]

Hi,

On the member profile screen there is a box about memberships in public groups.

What are these groups and where can I join?

[Jupac]

There arnt any groups.

[olaf]

:confused:

[Ben Rogers]

I'm also interested in this functionality, mainly because I know nothing about it. What is it?

[JPnyc]

They're like subcategories. None exist at present because we haven't created them on this forum. It's really kind of a pointless feature, the public groups anyway. The only way it's of any use, is if we set a secondary usergroup that you enter when you reach a certain post total, which might then give a few more user permissions, or something of that nature. But we already give users all the permissions there are for the user group now.

[rhsunderground]

i see. thanks joe!

[olaf]

I would like to become a member of something...

:D

[JPnyc]

You already are. You're a member of this forum. :)

[olaf]

hehe, thats nice...

[David Harrison]

I'm a member of the LSUCS forum (Loughborough Students Union Computing Society) and they run PHPBB which also has a similar groups feature. They're are a few various interest groups; gaming, hardware, webdev, operating systems and programming.

If there's an event, for example, if Tim Berners-Lee is going to be visiting Loughborough, then all of the members of the webdev section would be sent an email because that is something that they would most likely be interested in.

Such a system wouldn't really apply here because the forum is primarily focused on webdev and so we're like one big interest group already.

[olaf]

This sounds good... get an e-mail information about some events or maybe interesting articles or news (based on your settings)

[JPnyc]

Afraid those would be outside the software's capability. It could only change user permissions on the forum itself, and as I said, we already enable all user features for everybody.

[Mr Initial Man]

Well, there are sort of groups on the forum. There's Administrators, Super Moderators, Moderators, and guys on the Forum Naughty List (aka Banned)

[scragar]

how about being able to delete your own post then? maybe that should be available after so many post(not a huge number, but then it should be above 1 or 2...)

[Ben Rogers]

I'd say 1,000 posts would be a good number to allow deletion: it takes a lot of time and effort to post that much. Or at least 933... :p

[scragar]

yeah, 934.

Actualy I've posted once or twice now on the wrong thread, whats with having so many tabs open at once and them ocasionaly decinding to become my selected window... we need to be able to delete them if we do such a misttake, but people shouldn't be able to get a solution to there problem the remove all the post afterwards...

[JPnyc]

We don't allow users to delete posts because we want solutions found to remain on the forum, for those who search it looking for already answered questions, including search engine spiders.

[olaf]

We don't allow users to delete posts because we want solutions found to remain on the forum, for those who search it looking for already answered questions, including search engine spiders.
hmmm... do you like it if the user edit (removing the message) his post to 0 length?

Edit: It's a regulare fetaure from phpBB which is used on several big forums (like Dev Shed Forums)

[scragar]

I understand that(and it's kinda what my post said, but from a slightly different veiw).

it would just be nice to be able to fix my mistakes as oposed to relying on moderators and such.

EDIT: you can't have post of no length, it has to be 2 or more characters.

[olaf]

...absolutly, because this postings are indexed by search engines this kind of mistakes are visible to the public.