A few questions about the group forums

[ReaperFett]

Just knocking a few off I am thinking of:


1- Does the "WHo's Online" section show thread titles if someone is reading them?

2- Does the search feature let the normal person see threads?

3- SHould general RPing mods access locked group forums, or are they out of bounds?

[Shawn]

1) Assuming it's not in a locked forum, yes.

2) Threads that are not in locked forums, yes.

3) I believe that, as of right now, they have access. Unless Ogre specificed otherwise.

[ReaperFett]

No, I dont mean like that. I mean, should we stay out, our of courtesy?

[Shawn]

Well, we should be able to restrict their access manually, if it isn't already.

[ReaperFett]

So, any group could disallow any mod from entry? Gotcha :)

[Shawn]

I believe so, yes. Feel free to experiment with it.

[ReaperFett]

AYe aye :)

[Master Yoghurt]

Actually, I dont have access to any of the PW locked forums, so I would assume that means moderators should not have access, or pehaps it is related to my membership with the Jedi? I would obviously never try to edit the access mask for those forums. Those would only be entered upon invitation or if someone else added access.

Anyway, for later reference, I would like to state the policy for Temple Avalon and GJO Admin forum. Any board wide moderator may enter there, as we have nothing to hide. :)

[TheHolo.Net]

I set the board wide moderators without access to the private forum of the groups they did not already have on ezboard for a couple of reasons.

1. Courtesy and respect for their individuality.
2. Because of that individuality, their forums really aren't the boardwide mods' responsibility except in extreme cases/emergency, which should not apply to locked forums.

Boardwide mods do have the ability to modify all access masks for themselves, but forum specific moderators cannot, because of usergroup permissions, edit a board mods' access masks.