I don’t know if this belongs in Trust Level Permissions Table (inc Moderator Roles) or is a separate thing. What exactly can a Group Owner do? I know they can add and invite users, but do they have other control? Or is this all admin-only?
AI-generated summary
A discussion about the capabilities of Group Owners in Discourse. mattdm asked about the specific controls available to Group Owners, and awesomerobot provided a detailed list of their abilities, including:
- Managing the group’s profile and members
- Controlling who can mention and message the group
- Setting default notification levels for group members
- Viewing the log of group setting changes
awesomerobot noted that some features, such as configuring automatic members based on email and editing trust level effects, are not available to non-admin Group Owners. mattdm thanked awesomerobot for the helpful list.
Here’s a list that I think this covers everything a non-admin group owner can change… possible I’m still missing a thing or two.
- Profile, including…
name
group full name
“about group” - Members
add, remove, and invite group members
elevate others as group owners
remove self from group
change group access (join/leave freely)
avatar flair image (also used as the group icon on the group list, right?[1]
configure automatic members based on email
edit trust level effects
set “automatically set as primary group”
set default title - Interaction
Who can mention and message the group
Change the default notification level for messages sent to the group
Who can assign to the group (if the assign plugin is set up)
Change group visibility
Change group member visibility
Edit ability to publish group read state on messages - Notifications
Select default category and tag notification levels for group members (tracking, watching, etc) - Logs
View the log of which group settings have been changed, and who changed them
that’s confusing, but probably a separate issue… ↩︎
Cool, thanks! That’s really helpful!