# Send request to admin instead of owners
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-request-to-admin-instead-of-owners/87055
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [5월 9, 2018, 11:22오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-request-to-admin-instead-of-owners/87055 "2018-05-09T11:22:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Francois\_Douville](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Francois_Douville)
#### Post date: [5월 9, 2018, 11:22오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-request-to-admin-instead-of-owners/87055/1 "2018-05-09T11:22:19Z")
I am not a member of the group and there is no owner right now. Would it be possible to add a feature that send the request to me (admin) instead of owners?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [5월 9, 2018, 11:43오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-request-to-admin-instead-of-owners/87055/2 "2018-05-09T11:43:44Z")
> [@Francois\_Douville](#):
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> I am not a member of the group and there is no owner right now
You don’t have to be a member of the group to be the owner of a group (IIRC)
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### Author:  [@Francois\_Douville](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Francois_Douville)
#### Post date: [5월 9, 2018, 11:46오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-request-to-admin-instead-of-owners/87055/3 "2018-05-09T11:46:08Z")
How can I add me as a owner and not a member?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [5월 9, 2018, 11:46오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-request-to-admin-instead-of-owners/87055/4 "2018-05-09T11:46:34Z")
I might be wrong, this is what I was thinking of (there may be other topics), but I can’t quite figure out if it is implemented
> [@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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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [5월 9, 2018, 11:54오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-request-to-admin-instead-of-owners/87055/5 "2018-05-09T11:54:43Z")
Yup, nevermind, it seems it isn’t implemented. Therefore, if a group doesn’t have an owner the request message goes nowhere.