Forum network

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Sorry for posting another topic, but the other one was too vague.

I came up with a somewhat brilliant idea (at least, from my point of view ) that involves making a network of forums. This network will have one core forum, where the network administrators administrate everything. How I envision doing this task is by creating a bunch of child forums that use their own tables, except they share the members table for all the other forums.

I have reached that point, and it has worked fine. The forums are connected exactly how I wanted them to be. However, I have a terrible issue that may decide whether or not this network is possible. If an admin of one of the forums in the network decides to change the membergroup of one of the users, it will change the membergroup of that user for all the other forums. Since membergroups are done by ID and all, this poses a major issue.

One alternative I could do is also share the membergroups and permissions for all the forums, but I would also have to be singlehandedly responsible for assigning membergroups to particular members. This is far too tedious and discouraging for the forum owners, so I certainly don't want to take that path.

I have thought of many solutions in the last few days, but all of them either are countered by another problem, or they involve changing thousands of queries inside the SMF source files. I am fine with doing a little bit of work, but thousands of queries seems like a little much for something like this.

If anyone has had experience doing this before, or you have some brilliant idea to help get this network rolling along, please post. I really need help here.

Thanks for reading.

Edit: Please note that this concept is for SMF 2.0.