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Permissions Overhaul
#1

After spending about a week handling requests for permissions, I can clearly see that it needs a huge fix.

It would all be a lot easier if I could just assign people to multiple groups. Yet what's under you your name when your post is currently the only "group" you're in.

There's three things in JCINK for permissions:

User Group: a group of people that will share the same permission masks and moderation abilities. Only one group per person. Many permission masks per group.

Permission Mask: A collection of subforums that a user with this mask can see.
Examples: Locker room masks, Job headquarters masks

Moderator: A person who can edit/modify a post/subforum.




I'm thinking we might have to break this up into 3 "tiers" of groups:

- Members
Can only do basic forum actions like post replies and new topics.
Group: Default

- Elevated
Can modify posts in certain forums that need to be edited.
Still need specific permission masks for the job's headquarters
Groups: People with Jobs, GM's.

- Executive
Can modify any post
Can see all job headquarters
Group: Head office



This way if somebody gets a job, they only need to move from members to elevated, and I just have to switch the permission masks.

I won't do this soon, in fact I'll probably wait until this season is over. But if anybody has any suggestions of concerns let me know.

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#2

That's 3 tiers, Booj.

But I think this is necessary. Well done.
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#3

It has always annoyed me that when somebody has 2 jobs, sometimes one job cancels the permissions of another job. If this can fix that without having to spend time manually inputting all the permissions, you'd save yourself a ton of time

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Quote:Originally posted by Muerto@Dec 6 2016, 11:02 AM
It has always annoyed me that when somebody has 2 jobs, sometimes one job cancels the permissions of another job. If this can fix that without having to spend time manually inputting all the permissions, you'd save yourself a ton of time
isnt that why we had global mods?

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Quote:Originally posted by kit@Dec 6 2016, 10:03 AM

isnt that why we had global mods?


yeah sometimes that was what ended up happening, especially for people with like 3 jobs. Just became easier to do it that way.

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Quote:Originally posted by Muerto@Dec 6 2016, 12:02 PM
It has always annoyed me that when somebody has 2 jobs, sometimes one job cancels the permissions of another job. If this can fix that without having to spend time manually inputting all the permissions, you'd save yourself a ton of time

To view LR's and job specific forums you'll still need to manually set the permission masks. But it's a lot easier and less confusing than what it currently is.

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I'd suggest still having separate groups for GMs, simply because it will help people see at a glance who they are when using the forums. Especially with new members, it might be confusing to have everyone just be "elevated" or "executive" and just be expected to know what they do (or be expected to find and look at the job list to know)



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Quote:Originally posted by Tanner@Dec 6 2016, 11:21 AM
I'd suggest still having separate groups for GMs, simply because it will help people see at a glance who they are when using the forums. Especially with new members, it might be confusing to have everyone just be "elevated" or "executive" and just be expected to know what they do (or be expected to find and look at the job list to know)

I'll second that. Alternatively, strongly encourage GMs to list their position prominently in their signature.
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#9

I always hated relying on others to get permissions. Not to say it was a failed system before but the admins in charge have so much other shit. This is easily something that GMs and IIHF GMs could handle when it comes to permissions

IIHF heads you'll have to monitor as it could effect transfers and realistically rookies should not be added to IIHF LRs immediately (just something to be mindful of)



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#10

The thing is you need admin rights, and I don't think Leafs wants too many people in there.

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Honestly, admin CP is fuckin weird. At least, to me. I've gotten into it once since becoming simmer, and couldn't completely understand what I was doing.

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#12

Quote:Originally posted by Sorator@Dec 6 2016, 12:46 PM


I'll second that. Alternatively, strongly encourage GMs to list their position prominently in their signature.

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Quote:Originally posted by Sorator@Dec 6 2016, 10:46 AM


I'll second that. Alternatively, strongly encourage GMs to list their position prominently in their signature.

No

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