Not promoting this to the main page... this doesn't really concern everyone on the site.

After some of the problems we've had lately with people making posts in bad places (DK's DRK post, which she wound up placing under book/parent/848 which is PSC Assault - Excavation Duty is an example), I've been wracking my brain to try and figure out a way to prevent stuff like this in the future.

One thing I did mention was making a site guide/howto, which I still plan on doing, but I'm not certain that will really help. I've recently updated the Guides page and I think it's pretty easy to find things there. But it seems most users don't use that page, but rather try to search for things (this search by Mynx is an example. Instead of going to Guides->Assault, she searched for "staging points" and had to figure out which result was relevant). So who's to say a site guide/howto will really help.

So, I'm begining to think that I should more sharply define access roles for the site. Since the update, I have a lot of options for sharply defining user access roles. A lot more than I used to when I first set up the current access roles.

What I'm thinking of doing, and I'd like other admins to toss in their 2 cents here since this will affect them the most, is to retain the original roles that we had before, namely:

• ClanAM Members
• ClanAM Forum Admins
• ClanAM Event Coordinators
• ClanAM Gallery Coordinators
• ClanAM Admins

But tweak them so they each have less access rights (except for Admins). Basically, more sharply define them based upon what they actually do.

Then, after these have been tweaked, I want to add the following new access roles:

• Guide Author
  These will be people who can write and update books/guides.
• Poll Admins
  These will be people who can update and admin polls.

The ClanAM Admins will still have complete access rights over the site.

Basically, this will mean the following:

• 1) Only "Guide Authors" and "ClanAM Admins" will be able to write/update books and guides.
• 2) Only "ClanAM Admins" will be able to create/update static pages.
• 3) Only "Poll Admins" and "ClanAM Admins" will be able to create/update polls.
• 4) Only "Forum Admins" and "ClanAM Admins" will be able to promote forum posts to the front page.
• 5) "Even Coordinators" will no longer be able to promote forum posts to the front page, or create polls, books, or static pages. They will still have admin rights to the event queue.
• 6) "Gallery Coordinators" will no longer be able to promote forum posts to the front page, or create polls, books, or static pages. They will still have admin rights to the image gallery queue.

The normal "ClanAM Members" will remain largely the same, except the standard registered user (a user which has registered on the site but which I haven't promoted to "ClanAM Member" yet) will now be able to post forum comments, vote on polls, but do nothing else (this is an anti-spam tactic).

Phew... well I think that covers it... Questions or comments from the site admins?