Moderators can't use "Bulk Add To Group" even if they're group owners

[mint_saxon]

1. Create an administrator account, a moderator account, and a staged account (e.g. by sending a private message to an e-mail address which is not associated with an existing user account)
2. Create a group, set the moderator account as the owner
3. Log in as (or Impersonate) the moderator account, and go to the group page

I thought “Bulk Add To Group” feature would be available:

• Group owners can add new members
• Moderators can see “staged” accounts, and create them by sending a private message to an e-mail address

Is this deliberate, or would y’all accept a patch to enable “Bulk Add To Group” for group owners who are also moderators?

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@mint_saxon

Background

Our use-case is that we’re migrating mailing lists onto Discourse, but the lists are for private sub-groups of our community (hence the category which is visible only to members of a specific group) – and we’d like to support staged users for people who’d prefer to continue interacting via e-mail, so it’s a simpler transition from the existing lists.

The easiest way we’ve found for people to continue getting all messages sent to the mailing list by default (one of the main benefits of switching to Discourse will be being able to dial down the level of e-mails without leaving the list entirely, so it seems fair to start with the existing behaviour of receiving everything) is to use Mozilla’s group-category-notification plug-in to have all members of the group “Watching” the category.

I’ve read that being able to add staged users to groups “could stop working at any time”, so I’m open to other ideas

We’d also like group owners to be able to add new subscribers by e-mail (ideally without the group owners having to be moderators, but so far all of the relevant group owners happen to be), so that people can start receiving e-mail for their list immediately, without having to sign into Discourse first.