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[Live Forever]

Just a quick suggestion. It seems there are several membership groups that are not used, and it clutters up the pull down menu (and is a tad confusing) when searching for members (or searching for posts by specific groups, etc.).

"Basic Member" is listed twice (the first time not having any members as part of that group)
"Basic Membre" is listed, and makes no sense really
"editor" contains one person that has 0 posts
"Security" contains one person that has only 3 posts

Also "Validating FullMember" and "Validating Member" are both listed. Those might be still be needed for temporary holding for validating members or something? ("Validating FullMember" contains nobody, but "Validating Member" contains 2 people with 0 posts)

Would there be a way to get rid of the excess groups, or merge them with the existing ones to reduce clutter? It may be more complicated than I thought, but if it is relatively simple I think it would be a good move.

[jaydfox]

Security was to allow me to bring someone in who was basically a basic member, but had access to a security forum for leadership to view and discuss.

Basic Membre was probably used to assign one of Edward's alter ego/fake accounts to a group that looked like it was a basic member, but had restricted privileges (e.g., no ability to edit posts or something like that).

Editor is left over from when we had book editors working in a special forum visible only to them and to leadership.

The list goes on. When we upgrade, I'll cull the list, mainly because I have to painstakingly reset the permissions for each group, so I won't be wasting my time on small groups that aren't used any more.

As for validating fullmember and validatin member, there are reasons for those, which currently aren't being used, but which will be used at some point after the upgrade, maybe. If not, I'll cull them as well.