Non-moderator/staff permissions on groups

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

@Colin_Mueller

What we realized, as we began to revoke moderator access, is that group visibility and the ability to assign to groups can only be opened as far as “only group members, moderators, and admins” before we’d have to allow non-internal users the ability to see an assign to groups.

Sorry, can you expand a bit here.

We are also working through a similar issue at Discourse, in fact I do not have admin/modertor access on our dev instance. I completely hear you on the vast advantages of keeping the admin/moderator count low.

Can you spell out the problem?

Keeping in mind there are a few building blocks you can lean on:

1. Category moderation, you can define moderation over specific categories to specific groups. This allows high trust users higher flexiblity.

2. Trust level system … at TL4 (manual) a ton unlocks

3. assign allowed on groups site setting (which unlocks assign for specific groups)