# 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")
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### Author: ![Heliosurge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/heliosurge/32/571810_2.png) [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)
#### Post date: [25 juli 2025 om 22:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-owners-should-not-necessarily-be-group-members/38394/20 "2025-07-25T22:13:28Z")

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> [@Ethsim2](#):
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> > [@sam](#):
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> > Group can be owner of another group is not even something I would be comfortable adding.
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> perhaps it would be bad if it was sync’d and maybe difficult to tell cause and effect

Well we already have a group owner if sorts with Category moderators. I do something like this manually.

Being able to have a group manage a group means easier to add/remove owners without an admin being required As the Group Owners Group has it’s own core owners that can add remove regular members in the owner group.

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