question about member groups (asking for suggestions)

[Carly F.]

Hello:

 

I am creating a website for free of cost technical support on just about anything I can think of with regards to computers, web hosting, and the web in general.  This is to be a community driven site based around the structure of my volunteer job in a call center.  We are currently using IPB 3.4x and I've been making member groups like crazy as follows:

• Members
• Enterprise Security Team
• Accessibility Support
• Web Hosting Team
• Web Team
• Adobe Support Team
• Telecommunications Team
• Management Team

along with the banned, guests, validating, moderators, and administrators groups; what other groups should I create and what permissions should i give them?  We are using IPB, IP.Downloads, IP.Blog, IP.Content.  Do I really need to create a group for each department or organizational unit within the volunteer organization if a lot of them are just having different colors on their group title but otherwise are just clones of the members group?

 

I might permit certain groups greater freedom with regards to blogs or stored PMs i future as such I thought I should plan for those types of expansions.

 

Thanks for any assistance in this matter.

[otecko]

You don't need to; if a Member should have the same permissions as other groups, simply clone it and customize the color/icon. Maybe a Donator would be nice. You could think of perks such as no wait time for downloads, lift downloads limit, access to special forums, no wait time in between searches and so forth.

Edited November 30, 2015 by otecko

[Carly F.]

You don't need to; if a Member should have the same permissions as other groups, simply clone it and customize the color/icon. Maybe a Donator would be nice. You could think of perks such as no wait time for downloads, lift downloads limit, access to special forums, no wait time in between searches and so forth.

Those are all excellent suggestions.  I will take this to my team for review and possible implementation.  You know what they say, multiple minds of an issue will sonner or later come to an agreement.

[James]

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