# Should it be possible to add and remove users from moderators group?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-it-be-possible-to-add-and-remove-users-from-moderators-group/349653
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** groups
**Created:** [January 29, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-it-be-possible-to-add-and-remove-users-from-moderators-group/349653 "2025-01-29T22:58:21Z")
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### Author: ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-it-be-possible-to-add-and-remove-users-from-moderators-group/349653/1 "2025-01-29T22:58:21Z")

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The moderators group is automatic, and people are added/removed by admins via the user admin page. So I think the + Add Users and + Invite buttons should not be shown at the top, and the admin wrench next to each username with options to remove them should not be shown either.

Furthermore, if you try to add or remove a user here it will not work and fails silently, with no error shown.

These buttons are all also shown on the admin and trust level groups as well.

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### Author: ![nathank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nathank/32/290039_2.png) [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2025, 11:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-it-be-possible-to-add-and-remove-users-from-moderators-group/349653/2 "2025-01-29T23:18:03Z")

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Agree - they should clearly not be displayed there.

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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2025, 11:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-it-be-possible-to-add-and-remove-users-from-moderators-group/349653/3 "2025-01-29T23:25:55Z")

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I have the impression they were “added” recently. I am quite sure they were not there when I wrote [Admin.groups.manage.membership.automatic not replaced - #6 by Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-groups-manage-membership-automatic-not-replaced/324215/6).

But maybe it’s related to the changes there. In [FIX: Allow anyone who can manage groups to see Automatic tooltip by martin-brennan · Pull Request #30174 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/30174), checks whether the group is an automatic group have been removed.

 ![Screenshot_20250130_002230_Chrome](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/5/8/458f4deb7c03dac142cb2a51f1621c4080eb5a53.jpeg)

`canManageGroup` is used in [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/templates/group-index.hbs](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/templates/group-index.hbs) to decide whether to show those buttons or not.

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### Author: ![kris.kotlarek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/kris.kotlarek/32/176919_2.png) [@kris.kotlarek](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kris.kotlarek)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-it-be-possible-to-add-and-remove-users-from-moderators-group/349653/8 "2025-01-31T01:13:39Z")

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Great catch!

It was fixed in this PR

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/31062](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/31062)

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### Author: ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2025, 3:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-it-be-possible-to-add-and-remove-users-from-moderators-group/349653/9 "2025-01-31T03:10:09Z")

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