Publicly Available Groups (No AppleOutsider)

[LoCash]

If you click on "Preferences" and look towards the bottom of the options you have for your account, there is one about Usergroups Manager I believe. You can now join publicly available usergroups if available. Currently, was have the "No AppleOutsider" group created, so you people can now control your own dose of AO.

[thegelding]

can we add, "yes forum 13" option???

:devil:

g

ps...will you call this the "pscates and gelding modification" since we are the ones who opt out of AO from time to time

[LoCash]

Go to your user prefs and see what we named the group for yourself :p

[SKMDC]

appleoutsider has been pretty toothless here. that would have been one i'd have joined at .com

[thegelding]

Go to your user prefs and see what we named the group for yourself :p


that is what i love about this site...instant gratification


still can't find the modification to get to the mods forum

g

[DMBand0026]

That's cause there isn't one ;)

It's called "becoming a mod"
:lol:

And good luck with that one. :)

[turbulentfurball]

Bump. Does this work anymore or is it broken? I joined to group to see if I could still post in AppleOutsider and I can, even with the modification.

[Brad]

It's been broken from the start. We have to assign it to a user as the *default* usergroup because, if I recall correctly, vBulletin uses an OR operator when combining usergroup permissions.

I'll try to remember to look into this later tonight.

[Artap99]

What are the purposes of these groups? The AO one is obvious...but the other isn't. Is it just a commonplace thing in other forums brought over to this one that serves no purpose? A forum appendix, if you will.

[turbulentfurball]

Yeah, I think it's pretty useless. Whoever added that has seen too many Boobies and it's warped his/her mind.

[alcimedes]

You'll have to look for yourself and figure it out. We won't give you the answer.

:D

I will say though, every group serves some purpose.

[Brad]

Do note, also, that there are several non-publicly-joinable groups that you'll never see there. For example, once you hit 1000 posts, the system automatically adds you to a group that can edit their user titles. When you have 3000 posts and have been here for a year, the system automatically adds you to a group that gives you posting access to Nova Bazaar.

...and so forth.

[turbulentfurball]

When you have 3000 posts and have been here for a year, the system automatically adds you to a group that gives you posting access to Nova Bazaar.

300 no? :)

[Brad]

Well, I was going to raise it to 3000 while alcimedes was all drugged out from his surgery today, but the little bugger just keeps on going! :D

[alcimedes]

Not to say that I'm not drugged out of my mind right now, but I can still read. :D