Membership in the `staff` group

[JammyDodger]

The @staff group is one of the automatic ones so people can’t be added to it manually like the other groups. It’s essentially the @admins and @moderators in one combined place (‘site staff’ rather than company employees).

So Dax’s post you linked is pretty much the long and short of it:

Adding users to the "staff" group

Yes, this is not the right way. A staff user is an admin, a mod or both admin and mod. To add a user to the staff group you have to promote the user as an admin or mod (or both). [image] After that the staff group will appears in the Automatic group for that user. You don’t have to do anything else. If you do not want to grant admin or mod powers to the users you need to create a custom group (with a different name, “staff” is already taken). See here for details about custom group…