The discussion centers on enhancing group management in Discourse by allowing one group to be designated as the owner of another, particularly useful in scenarios where category moderators need to manage group membership, including ejecting problematic users. Heliosurge proposes this feature to streamline moderation and suggests future enhancements like a suspend option for group members, mirroring the site’s user suspension system. Tris20 supports the idea and references related prior discussions on group delegation and subgroup creation, indicating existing community interest. Heliosurge emphasizes the potential for building Reddit-like multi-community structures with this feature and, in post 4, suggests rallying more users from related topics and possibly sponsoring a plugin to implement the functionality if enough interest is generated. The goal is to improve group autonomy and moderation scalability through hierarchical group ownership.
With the benefits of Category Moderators. In a category where you need to be a member of a group to participate. It would be beneficial if another group can be set as owner.
In this scenario a problem user could be ejected from a group by say the category moderator group. A list could be maybe maintained in the templates plugin if a ban from that group is permanent or not
Ideally an added feature maybe down the road would be to add a suspend option to group members similar to main site. This could have temp and perm options.
But ATM simply being able to have group A set as owner of group B would be awesome.
This is something I was looking at a while ago as well. I had a bit of trouble finding these topics in the search so I just went though my post history instead
