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Oldiesmann:
One feature I've always wanted to see in SMF, particularly with the moderation and membergroup enhancements that came with 2.0, is the ability to assign an entire membergroup to moderate a board. Currently you can accomplish a similar thing by giving a group moderator-like permissions on a board and then assigning members to that group, but this could be a bit confusion as the regular users wouldn't really know that the members in that group could moderate those boards (although this partly depends on how the admin chooses to publicize things and the group names).

The membergroups-as-moderators feature would let you choose membergroups which would also be listed as moderators alongside the regular members. When a user clicked on the group name, they would be taken to the page which showed the members in that group, and (depending on settings), allowed them to join/request to join that group.

The one thing I can't decide on is how to handle permissions.  Should the members in those groups be treated the same as regular board moderators (same permissions, being listed as a "Moderator" rather than a member of whatever their primary group is, etc.), or should it be more of an aesthetic thing (basically just adding the option to specify that the group should be listed as a moderator for that board)?

I'm inclined to go with the first option, as it makes things a bit less confusing (ideally, all members assigned to moderate a board should have the same permissions, regardless of whether they're assigned individually or as part of a group assigned to moderate the board), but I'm thinking this might confuse some people, as doing it this way would prevent you from being able to edit permissions specifically for that group for those particular boards (eg the permissions for those groups would be inherited from the main "Moderators" group).

Let me know which option you feel is best :)

Radick:
I would defiantly like a function like that!
I have some communities and i hate it to manage every user for every board an i can't use easily a usergroup...

Hoodie:
This is definitely something I'd be interested in.  The way I do it now is setting up profiles to be used with board permissions.  It doesn't publicly display them as moderators which is fine with me because their title kind of already gives that impression.

I run a site for an iOS game and there are many clans on my forum.  Each new clan means a new profile as well so it kind of sucks.  If I could assing a membergroup to be moderator for that forum and that forum only though, that would be awesome.

RoadRash:
I would love this.

For my point of view, it should behave exactly the same as  if the user was added to the list of moderators directly - ideally in the board overview the names of the users and not the group is listed. So it would be just a more convinient option to add multiple users :-)

emanuele:
* emanuele would love to see a mod (or a PR) at some point. :P

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