# Cannot change member\_visibility\_level of automatic groups

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-change-member-visibility-level-of-automatic-groups/280373
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** groups
**Created:** [September 28, 2023, 2:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-change-member-visibility-level-of-automatic-groups/280373 "2023-09-28T02:53:46Z")
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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2024, 7:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-change-member-visibility-level-of-automatic-groups/280373/3 "2024-01-15T19:34:36Z")

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It looks like there’s a #Contribute > Feature request version of this with some more discussion in:

> [@Respect the visibility settings of all automatic groups](https://meta.discourse.org/t/respect-the-visibility-settings-of-all-automatic-groups/280998):
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> (One person’s feature request is another person’s bug report… upside_down_face) The “Groups” index page (e.g., /groups or /g), should respect the visibility settings of the automatic groups, and display them accordingly. It does this for the Moderators group, but not the others. This is due to a hard-coded exception in GroupsController.index(), which causes the other automatic groups to never appear on the index page when viewed by non-staff users, no matter what the visibility settings are…

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