# Improved Group Members Management

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/improved-group-members-management/16768
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** rfc, spec
**Created:** [6월 22, 2014, 2:28오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improved-group-members-management/16768 "2014-06-22T14:28:23Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [1월 7, 2016, 11:29오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improved-group-members-management/16768/32 "2016-01-07T11:29:09Z")

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Discussion continued here:

> [@Group owners should not necessarily be group members](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-owners-should-not-necessarily-be-group-members/38394):
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> On my site I have a use case for people being given the privilege of managing group membership without being a member of the group themselves. I assumed this is how it worked and was surprised to see that someone I added as group manager is now also a group member. The use case? We use groups to assign badges. And to give access to private categories. And the people responsible for doing this are not always group members. Edit: having noticed this, I then removed some group owners only to real…

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