1 Topic by Rob25

  • From: Toronto, ON
  • Registered: 2005-01-20
  • Posts: 11

Topic: New member -> user group

Something odd going on. I created a user group called 'new registrants'. When somebody joins the forum, they are placed in this user group by default. I then manually switch them to the 'members' user group to approve their membership, thus keeping the entire forum private.

So far, so good. I can go to the user list, search the group of 'new registrants', and get a list of all the new members that I need to approve.

With a handful of the new registrations, though, they do not show up in the 'new registrants' group. (I'm getting an email with each new registration, so I know who they are.) When I go to their profile to change the user group, they appear to be in 'new registrants', but the checkboxes allowing moderator rights are visible.

It's very peculiar. It only happens sometimes, without any kind of pattern.

Sorry if already addressed.

2 Reply by Rob25

  • From: Toronto, ON
  • Registered: 2005-01-20
  • Posts: 11

Re: New member -> user group

A related problem. With the members mentioned above, the moderator checkboxes appear immediately below the 'Delete user' options. With regular moderators, however, there is a vast amount of blank space between the "Administrators always have full permissions in all forums" text and the checkboxes themselves. Next time one of these bizarre new registrations occurs, I'll look at the xhtml and css and see if I can figure out exactly what the difference is, but I wondered if you already knew about it.

3 Reply by Rob25

  • From: Toronto, ON
  • Registered: 2005-01-20
  • Posts: 11

Re: New member -> user group

Rob25 wrote:

With a handful of the new registrations, though, they do not show up in the 'new registrants' group. (I'm getting an email with each new registration, so I know who they are.) When I go to their profile to change the user group, they appear to be in 'new registrants', but the checkboxes allowing moderator rights are visible.

It turns out that the new user is assigned '32000' as their group, not '5', which happens to be my 'new registrants' group.

4 Reply by Rob25

  • From: Toronto, ON
  • Registered: 2005-01-20
  • Posts: 11

Re: New member -> user group

Rob25 wrote:

A related problem. With the members mentioned above, the moderator checkboxes appear immediately below the 'Delete user' options.

Hm. Not this time. In this case -- like all other mods -- the checkboxes appear way off the bottom of the page. Wonder if it is a css issue? Anybody else have this problem?

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Re: New member -> user group

I have no idea about the display issue you mentioned, but here's now the register thing works. You've enabled "Verify registrations". That means the forums generate a random password and e-mail it to the new registrant. What happens here is that the user is placed in the non-existant user group PUN_UNVERIFIED (32000) until he/she logs in the first time. Then, they are moved to the default user group (in your case 5). Since you in effect moderate all new registrations, there's no need for you to have "Verify registrations" enabled. Turn it off and things will work the way you want them.

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6 Reply by Rob25

  • From: Toronto, ON
  • Registered: 2005-01-20
  • Posts: 11

Re: New member -> user group

Fantastic -- thanks. That makes a lot of sense.

7 Reply by Paul

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Re: New member -> user group

Rob25 wrote:
Rob25 wrote:

A related problem. With the members mentioned above, the moderator checkboxes appear immediately below the 'Delete user' options.

Hm. Not this time. In this case -- like all other mods -- the checkboxes appear way off the bottom of the page. Wonder if it is a css issue? Anybody else have this problem?

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