iMonkey Posted March 4, 2009 Posted March 4, 2009 As I understand it, you have the "IPS News" forum account just as an extra account to log into to post news, probably so that no specific staff member gets flooded with questions after a news update. What if you guys added a function for "Moderating Team Exclude" or something along those lines to exclude particular accounts from the "The Moderating Team" page, given the fact that said separate account(s) wouldn't actually be mods/admins but just an account with a staff rank under their avatar. I would switch to doing it with a separate "News" account if the whole exclude thing were an option in the acp. Thoughts?
Ryan H. Posted March 4, 2009 Posted March 4, 2009 That would make it that much easier for someone to create trouble without ever being noticed if an administrator were compromised.
Amy T Posted March 4, 2009 Posted March 4, 2009 That would make it that much easier for someone to create trouble without ever being noticed if an administrator were compromised. I agree with you.
iMonkey Posted March 4, 2009 Posted March 4, 2009 There's easy work-arounds for that, like having a similar, un-ignored list in the acp for the admins to see everyone that has staff permissions.
Ryan H. Posted March 4, 2009 Posted March 4, 2009 There's easy work-arounds for that, like having a similar, un-ignored list in the acp for the admins to see everyone that has staff permissions. There already is; that doesn't mean anyone would bother checking it. Why would they? They already "know" everyone who has access.
Mark Posted March 4, 2009 Posted March 4, 2009 That would make it that much easier for someone to create trouble without ever being noticed if an administrator were compromised. Someone could have admin as a secondary member group and they would not be listed.
iMonkey Posted March 5, 2009 Posted March 5, 2009 Someone could have admin as a secondary member group and they would not be listed. Does that mean you like the idea? I would really like to see that as a feature so that we dont have this extra "side" account listed as staff on the staff page but still makes official news update posts.
bfarber Posted March 5, 2009 Posted March 5, 2009 There have been dozens of requests to configure the moderating team page. It's on my "nice to have" list for some point in the future, but generally when we're trying to decide which features to work on for a new version, there's a lot of nicer stuff to work on that a configurable moderating team page. It's on an internal list is all I can say. Whether we'll change it in the next upcoming versions, no one can say. We need to worry about 3.0 right now.
iMonkey Posted March 5, 2009 Posted March 5, 2009 Understandable. Thanks for the info, Brandon. :thumbsup:
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