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On my board, we a toying with the idea of a "special group" that would have enhanced permissions. As part of that, I was wondering how hard it would be to have a special little gif a la the "A" for admin and "M" for moderator.
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Would be great. One item we would like is a club flag for each member next to their name, depending upon which club their support. So a very similar idea 
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This is something I'll be looking at for a future version to be in the stock code. The one stumbling block in my thought process on this is how to determine which flag to show if the member belongs to 2 groups and both have an image associated with it.
Say, I'm an admin and I'm also a member of Group A which has a gif associated with it. Do I display the admin gif or the Group A gif? One option is to display both, but that could get messy as some sites have users that belong to a large number of groups.
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I guess for full support, you would have to have a way to mark a particular member's group as an "image group" and "there can only be one" (Highlander). Would be a PITA to support that DB constraint in code tho.
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Rick, I have a sugguestion! Apply a weight field to the user groups, then if they overlap it'll take whichever has a higher weight for the icon...
Admin's would always be #1, Mods #2, then the admin could assign weights for 3+ to other fields...
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Rick, I have a sugguestion! Apply a weight field to the user groups, then if they overlap it'll take whichever has a higher weight for the icon...
Admin's would always be #1, Mods #2, then the admin could assign weights for 3+ to other fields... Good idea - but why not just show a drop down with images available to the user - therefore he could choose whichever icon he wishes and flick between them as he desired. As long as users can still tell as to who the admins and mods are if they choose another group icon that they belong to - then it should work fine 
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Because, allowing users such freedoms is just asking for trouble... User from group a could choose group b's image, and vicea versa... I like dealing with weights  ... Plus it'd allow 0 confusion for users; and would allow admins to choose exactly what they wanted users to show as...
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No - if they are not a member of group b - then they cannot choose group b - they would only see the groups that they belong to 
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Yeh but it'd lead to inconstancies, i think the admin should be able to choose which should be used in such cases; because you'll never know what ones you'll have clashing and when, so setting a weight will let you choose which groups are more important...
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* I've been dying for a way to show a unique image based on the user's group since 7 came out. In UBB6.5 I had members who paid to be in one of four special groups get a special icon that displayed below their custom title, but the way usergroups are set up in 7 is beyond my skillz to parse out and display in showflat. =(
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For a quick and dirty mod for an additional gif or 2 I'd think you could add additional if/then's in the section that writes out the admin and mod .gif's, eh?
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For a quick and dirty mod for an additional gif or 2 I'd think you could add additional if/then's in the section that writes out the admin and mod .gif's, eh? I looked at doing that, but the admin and mod gifs are added based on "user status = admin" type things, nothing to do with groups. =(
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