# Group owners should not necessarily be group members **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-owners-should-not-necessarily-be-group-members/38394 **Category:** Feature **Tags:** pr-welcome **Created:** [24 januari 2016 om 06:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-owners-should-not-necessarily-be-group-members/38394 "2016-01-24T06:15:05Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 15
### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin) #### Post date: [9 juli 2025 om 17:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-owners-should-not-necessarily-be-group-members/38394/15 "2025-07-09T17:51:25Z")
You need group owners for the feature that allows users to request membership to the group. I think it makes sense in the context that users need to request to become members and not decide they are experts on their own. I think you do something similar with the [@support-explorers](https://meta.discourse.org/groups/support-explorers) group, don’t you? ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/1/7/3/173aff822936c801c6da4291d65982aa2051bf56.png) ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/1/f/5/1f597c5dfbce9dfac770f4f852642a705062fa86.png) @patrickemin I reported a bug last year that could help you avoid being added as a member of the group. But you’d need to find a workflow so that you frequently check if there are new requests in the request tab of the group because you won’t receive the messages in that case. But it’s possible to remove yourself from the group after enabling membership requests: > [@Removing last group owner if membership requests are enabled](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-last-group-owner-if-membership-requests-are-enabled/333087): > > I just tried to save my group’s settings without changing anything and, surprisingly, I wasn’t allowed to. While it isn’t possible to save any settings when there is no owner and membership is granted by requests, you can easily remove the group owner from the group or revoke their owner status. In that case, membership request m… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-owners-should-not-necessarily-be-group-members/38394)._