Moderator Group Problems

Dear Bruce,

Members of the Moderator group are unable to function in the site like any members of other groups. For example, they cannot post, edit, etc... unless I type the following line in common.asp

If intGroupID = 2 Then blnModerator = 1

The problem is that I assume there is something is wrong since I assume that your code already takes care of it. If not, is this a bug. If indeed, there is no problem, then what have I setup wrong.

I do have a Moderator group with group_id = 2 in tblGroup.

Also, when I try to setup the permissions for the Moderator group, oh boy! Once I check the "Moderate" checkbox, the whole site's administrative options become exposed to any Guest user. Then, any visitor to the site can actually function as an admin.

Help!

Sorry for the dopuble post, but I remembered something important:

To create a moderator group, do the following:

1. Go into the Admin area.
2. Go to Group Administration.
3. Create a new group.
4. Then go to the Group Permissions Administration.
5. Assign the new group moderator rights in the forums you want the group to moderate.

Alternately, you can use the Membership Permissions Administration to give a user moderator rights regardless of what group they are in.

Hope that helps.