[Mikel Coreclark]

Hello Ronald

Sorry for the late reply.
You are correct, Admin can assign and member or other person to have admin permissions to perform many tasks. The Big issue with this is that many issues can be created accidentally or deliberate. So admin ? site owner has to be very careful who has permissions.

My future admin build: Special moderator / observer.
This is a separate build from the normal admin permissions.
Normal permissions would allow anyone with admin status to (for example): delete member, alter member information, see sensitive member information
I would not create it as moderator user group. In my experience, the more plugins a site has the more demand on the servers fetch and memory service.
This is why i would have plugin ‘Notes’ like on moosocial created for shaunsocial. I used it on my old moosocial where only admin could see Notes and put member information. so if a member was breaking rules or being bad then any ‘Report’ admin received could see the notes on the members profile and make a decision about that member, delete or suspend for example. This method works better but could be used with a user group if needed.

My new admin feature would (for example):
1, Security/ law enforcement: Observer level. only allow viewing member information, messages, ewallet, subscriptions, friends/follow lists, reports. But they could not perform any admin actions such as alter information or delete actions.
2, moderator / Admin trainee: see all information but could not alter information.

These two new admin levels would help prevent accidental issues or deliberate issues.
At the same time would benefit site owner in terms of being classed as a trusted site and will help with law enforcement.

Mikel.

[Mikel Coreclark]

Hello Mark

Thank you for you reply.

I also have shaunsocial build features that i will be requesting in future.
My ideas for build features are for adding member online security, member data security, and other build changes.

As you know, the time has arrived where sites had no or very little restrictions, security and government regulation. Example is Facebook where security was not considered, rules do not apply and abuse is everywhere.
Now, UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, EU countries are implementing new legal laws and regulations to enforce laws and legal responsibility on site owners and companies.

These new laws are: “Online safety laws” and “Online child protection laws” and a working partnership with Law Enforcement in the matters of “online and offline crime and criminality”.

This means that, Sites will need to be regulated and follow the laws or face being prosecuted and fined also could have their sites shut down/closed.

So my new build requests will in some way help other site owners and shaunsocial build better, more trusted sites that are more secure for their members.
My future requests include: “Search” restrictions where members can chose option yes or no to show up in search results and admin override setting to set restrictions in admin panel.. Secret passcodes, Stopping members from seeing or changing personal data, eWallet gatekeeper passwords especially for adding or transferring funds, adding Verify Me feature to sign-up page and required to provide ID at point of sign up. Sign up questions that will be a legal requirement in future especially if site members earn money on sites through donations or subscriptions earnings.

Many Thanks
Mikel.
And a couple of new features like “Notes” and “stores”. These are already available in Moosocial but i would like them in shaunsocial. But “stores” will need to be shortened down, made smaller. Reason is, Some communities might want to sell items.
Stores and marketplace is perfect for Moosocial but it is far to big for Shaunsocial.

In the past when i had Moosocial, i had similar custom work on my site that Socialloft techs created for me