What exactly is Group membership which appears in the control panel? Can custom Public Groups be created?
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Jump to PostGroups are part of the vBulletin software. The adminstrator can create special groups and assign members to those groups. Moreover, permissions, such as forum access, can be give to Groups.
That's why we have a "Moderator" category on the site, only accessible to members of the Moderator group.
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Jump to PostI suppose a request could be made, if you have a good enough reason for it. Mainly, groups are there to provide easy administration. It's easier to create a section of the site accessible to a "group", and give permissions and settings to the group, and then make members part …
Jump to PostNot necessarily "elite", but yeah, you get the point.
Members of the "Staff Writer" group get 1) a user profile badge, 2) access to the Staff Writer's Forum. As an administrative task, it's easier to assign those rights to a single thing, a group, than it is to assign …
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