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Group members should be able to see/contact group coordinators

Alanna Irving PublicSeen by 36

Just had a user needing to contact a group coordinator for help with something, and I realized I don't know how a non-coordinator can see who group coordinators are. Is there a way to do this that I don't know about?

I would suggest something simple like putting coordinators at the top of the members list in their own section. And what about a "contact group coordinators" option that send them an email? Seems like these types of moderation tools will become more necessary as groups grow.

mix irving

this sounds like an easy thing to do.
not necessarily at the top, but easily identifiable.

something that would help a lot would be a mockup.

ideas - a supersection of members panel
- a symbol next to users
- a bold/ italicized name

Alanna Irving

@matthewbartlett any ideas on how this should work visually?

Alanna Irving

More feedback from the user... he's OK for now but I think this is actually an important issue.

From Joum:

Hi Alanna,

And thank you.

One of our members asked if he could be elected as team-coordinator. We all thought that was good but did not realise he intended to remove our coordinator/admin privileges. We have sorted this out so there is no immediate problem.

It is challenging to decide who we can trust. In the short time - since the Australian elections - a group of people have been working to progress the development of Senator Online (SOL) www.senatoronline.org.au

Human nature being what it is, some people enjoy putting themselves in positions of power. SOL is about distributing this power equally, but this has huge challenges. In our development stage we need to limit outside influences to some degree, which is not what our ethos is.

So yes, we do need to be able to lock in some admin rights with some people. I like to share the power but it can go very wrong when they remove other admin/coordinators without due process.

If I could just be assured that you are able to re-establish my coordinator status if someone removes it this will give me great comfort.

Chris Taklis

Just one symbol that shows that someone is coordinator and on the member list if the group to be on top and say a title above the name/s "coordinators"

Robert Guthrie

Wow. Thanks for managing this. It is a clear need to have a seperation of roles here. Group admin verses coordinator, voter etc.

Matthew Bartlett

@alannakrause @christaklis first go attached