Usergroups define how you appear to others and enable site admins to better administer users. Some groups may give you additional permissions to view content or increase your capabilities in ...
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Usergroups
Usergroups define how you appear to others and enable site admins to better administer users. Some groups may give you additional permissions to view content or increase your capabilities in other areas.
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| Administrators This is a special group, special groups are managed by the board administrators. |
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The administrators (admin) manage the technical details of running the site. As such, they may promote (and demote) members to moderators, manage the rules, create sections and sub-sections, as well as perform any database operations (database backup etc). Administrators often also act as moderators. Administrators may also make forum-wide announcements, or change the appearance of a forum. | 1 |
| Bots This is a special group, special groups are managed by the board administrators. |
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This is a group that web crawlers are placed into automatically. Bots are a type of software agent. In general, a bot is a computer program that browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner. Other terms for bots are web crawlers, spiders, ants, automatic indexers, worms, or web robots. | 204 |
| Global moderators This is a special group, special groups are managed by the board administrators. |
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Moderators who are able to moderate the entire site without any limitations. Global Moderators can do just about anything to posts. Edit, move, delete, approve, etc. | 3 |
| Guests This is a special group, special groups are managed by the board administrators. |
This is the group assigned to anonymous users who browse the site without logging in. | 1 | ||
| Master Mechanics This is an open group, members can apply to join. |
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ASE Certified individuals. Past, present, and expired. | 2 | |
| Newly registered users This is a special group, special groups are managed by the board administrators. |
This group will be assigned as the default group to brand new members who recently registered an account. These are users with many of the common privileges that registered members have except they are slightly restricted to help reduce spam bot registrations. Users will be removed from this group once they reach a definable amount of posts and the "Registered user" group will become their default group. | 839 | ||
| Registered users This is a special group, special groups are managed by the board administrators. |
The general populous with common privileges to create new topics, reply to other topics, send/receive private messages, browse most areas of the forums, create polls, upload attachments, create photo galleries, etc. | 1,210 | ||
| Servicemen This is a freely open group, all new members are welcome. |
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Men and women of the United States Armed Forces. Past and Present. Including Air Force, Army, Marines, National Guard, Navy, Reserves, Soldiers, Sailors, Seaman, Airman, Marines, Coast Guard, National Guard, etc. | 8 | |
| Supporters This is a closed group, new members can only join upon invitation of a group leader. |
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Contributing members who have made a donation to the site. To donate to the site, send a Private Message to Austin. Remember you can always support the site by clicking on any advertisements you see. | 2 |
Administrators
Technical Director
The administrators (admin) manage the technical details of running the site. As such, they may promote (and demote) members to moderators, manage the rules, create sections and sub-sections, as well as perform any database operations (database backup etc). Administrators often also act as moderators. Administrators may also make forum-wide announcements, or change the appearance of a forum.
Global moderators
Staff Member
Moderators who are able to moderate the entire site without any limitations. Global Moderators can do just about anything to posts. Edit, move, delete, approve, etc.
Master Mechanics
ASE Certified
ASE Certified individuals. Past, present, and expired.
Servicemen
U.S. Armed Forces
Men and women of the United States Armed Forces. Past and Present. Including Air Force, Army, Marines, National Guard, Navy, Reserves, Soldiers, Sailors, Seaman, Airman, Marines, Coast Guard, National Guard, etc.
Supporters
Contributor
Contributing members who have made a donation to the site. To donate to the site, send a Private Message to Austin. Remember you can always support the site by clicking on any advertisements you see.
Groups Synopsis
Usergroups are groups of users that divide the community into manageable sections board administrators can work with. Each user can belong to several groups and each group can be assigned individual permissions. This provides an easy way for administrators to change permissions for many users at once, such as changing moderator permissions or granting users access to a private forum.
Where are the usergroups and how do I join one? You can view all usergroups via the Usergroups link within your User Control Panel. If you would like to join one, proceed by clicking the appropriate button. Not all groups have open access, however. Some may require approval to join, some may be closed and some may even have hidden memberships. If the group is open, you can join it by clicking the appropriate button. If a group requires approval to join you may request to join by clicking the appropriate button. The user group leader will need to approve your request and may ask why you want to join the group. Please do not harass a group leader if they reject your request; they will have their reasons.
Any number of members considered as a unit can be called a group. A set of users grouped together in the forum system for administrative purposes. A cohesive group of individuals that may be interested in receiving information about an entity's specific defining attributes and site privileges. A group is a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse.