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Posted by: Recon Number 54
Posted by: American Recoil
Posted by: Recon Number 54
Posted by: American Recoil
Posted by: Recon Number 54
They're security levels, not titles or ranks. If someone uses them as anything other than a security role, they have to deal with the outcome of using a butter knife as a screwdriver.Care to elaborate? I was only aware of them being a reflection of activity, longevity, and trust?
Titles exist on the main forum, what drives the title bar in groups is the security role set by the admin.
Personally, I would prefer to see the group security role de-linked from the group-title-bar and while it is defaulted to match the security role, the admin can free-text edit any member's title.
That would allow efficient use of security (instead of attempting to leverage it into ranks) and the admin to "build and use" any title system they want, including giving people pet nicknames of their choosing.So basically groups don't have "titles" but simply a "named" security role in the group? And the system is completely different from the public forum titles?
Group 1, the main forums, has a surprisingly small number of security roles. Full Admin, Web Team, Master Ninja, Ninja, member and fresh member (unable to post yet)... give or take a few odd ones.
Groups don't require many more, if any.
If the security role display text for a group were editable, then it would be a lot like the various members of the Web Team, (Stosh, Urk, DeeJ, etc.) who have the same security role (I would assume) but each has a different displayed title that was typed in by an Admin.
The trust/title system overrides the display of the security role for members, I would imagine that groups could/should do something similar.
This is a good idea, and I'd like to see it implemented. I believe the thing impeding it is the fact that groups are normally on such a small scale that using the roles simultaneously as titles normally works fine.
[Edited on 12.30.2011 10:57 PM PST]