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Cleaning up private usergroup forums

PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 1:21 am
by Kotaro
How do I get this done?

I, long ago, suggested the idea of making usergroup leaders mods of their own little space, so they could clean up at will, but since that hasn't happened yet, I was wonderinf if you mods had an alternative solution for me.

Re: Cleaning up private usergroup forums

PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 2:01 pm
by hecter
Kotaro wrote:How do I get this done?

I, long ago, suggested the idea of making usergroup leaders mods of their own little space, so they could clean up at will, but since that hasn't happened yet, I was wonderinf if you mods had an alternative solution for me.

Send them frequent PM's asking them to delete the threads that you want deleted. You'll either get your mod powers, get your threads deleted, or get banned.

Re: Cleaning up private usergroup forums

PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 4:20 pm
by t-o-m
I dont think mod powers would ever be given because then they would be able to see the mod logs and the MCP, amongst other reasons.

Re: Cleaning up private usergroup forums

PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 4:30 pm
by lancehoch
I believe in the past this was being discussed and lack was looking at how to remove the access to private information from the usergroup mods, but I am not sure.

Re: Cleaning up private usergroup forums

PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 4:38 pm
by hecter
t-o-m wrote:I dont think mod powers would ever be given because then they would be able to see the mod logs and the MCP, amongst other reasons.

No, they'd only need to have simple moderator status, and with that you can't do much more than edit and delete posts, and those other basic tasks. PHPBB 3 has some really intense permissions customization...

Re: Cleaning up private usergroup forums

PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 4:42 pm
by hwhrhett
all you need to do is have the authors change the titles of the posts to "DELETE" and then once all of the ones that you want deleted have been tagged, you can alert a mod to hop in and delete them for you. im not sure which mod would be in charge of that now tho.

Re: Cleaning up private usergroup forums

PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 4:44 pm
by hecter
hwhrhett wrote:all you need to do is have the authors change the titles of the posts to "DELETE" and then once all of the ones that you want deleted have been tagged, you can alert a mod to hop in and delete them for you. im not sure which mod would be in charge of that now tho.

Authors sometimes leave usergroups, or even the site all together, so that's not always possible.

Re: Cleaning up private usergroup forums

PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 4:44 pm
by wacicha
Welll I must admit sometimes I am a mod. I know for a fact that they do not delete posts. Messes with the post count among other things. A Global mod may be able to send the post to a forum 9th level hell called sandbox or one of the other post hell holes. Then you will not be able to see it, but it will not be deleted

Re: Cleaning up private usergroup forums

PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 4:48 pm
by hecter
wacicha wrote:Welll I must admit sometimes I am a mod. I know for a fact that they do not delete posts. Messes with the post count among other things. A Global mod may be able to send the post to a forum 9th level hell called sandbox or one of the other post hell holes. Then you will not be able to see it, but it will not be deleted

Usergroup posts don't count toward post count anyway...

Re: Cleaning up private usergroup forums

PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 4:53 pm
by blakebowling
yeah there are only three ...no four people that can delete posts,

hecter, it does have advanced permission settings for Moderators, however disabling the board logs is not one of them (however I don't see why moderators need the logs in the first place, and I have told Andy how to completely turn them off, but the mods revolted :roll:)


I was also thinking about a group of moderators that would moderate usergroup forums (not as the public forums are moderated, but as the group leader wants), the only problem with that is that all the Usergroup Mods would be able to see the usergroup forums (which lack, Twill, Andy, and King do now)

and no, usergroup posts don't count on post counts

Re: Cleaning up private usergroup forums

PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 4:54 pm
by blakebowling
hwhrhett wrote:all you need to do is have the authors change the titles of the posts to "DELETE" and then once all of the ones that you want deleted have been tagged, you can alert a mod to hop in and delete them for you. im not sure which mod would be in charge of that now tho.

As I said there are only three .... damn... four people that can see all of the Usergroup Forums, and they have better things to do (well, thats what Twill keeps telling me :lol:) than constantly modding usergroup forums.

Re: Cleaning up private usergroup forums

PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:44 pm
by Kotaro
I'm pretty sure that, with the new boards, it'd be possible to give people mod powers in small sections without letting them see anything huge and/or secret.

...If that arguement fails, I want to put in an application to be a delete mod.

Re: Cleaning up private usergroup forums

PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:45 pm
by hecter
Kotaro wrote:I'm pretty sure that, with the new boards, it'd be possible to give people mod powers in small sections without letting them see anything huge and/or secret.

...If that arguement fails, I want to put in an application to be a delete mod.

No, not without some sort of mod. I checked, blake is right. Give them any mod powers, they get to see the moderator log.

Re: Cleaning up private usergroup forums

PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:48 pm
by Kotaro
Kotaro wrote:...If that arguement fails, I want to put in an application to be a deletion mod.


>___>

Re: Cleaning up private usergroup forums

PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:49 pm
by hecter
Kotaro wrote:
Kotaro wrote:...If that arguement fails, I want to put in an application to be a deletion mod.


>___>

Ya, well that isn't happening in a million years... You don't put in applications to become a mod here.

Re: Cleaning up private usergroup forums

PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 10:18 pm
by Kotaro
So anyone have any worthwhile suggestions ? I could PM a mod to death, but i wouldn't know which one :)

Re: Cleaning up private usergroup forums

PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 10:19 pm
by hecter
Kotaro wrote:So anyone have any worthwhile suggestions ? I could PM a mod to death, but i wouldn't know which one :)

lackattack
Twill
AndyDufresne
King Achilles