On Sep 21, 2011, at 4:43 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > On 9/21/11 5:37 PM, Kevin Smith wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpe...@stpeter.im> >> wrote: >>>> Personally, I think the occupant which loss admin privs to a >>>> member-only room ought to be kicked. Others might think otherwise. >>> >>> Why not transition from admin to mere member? I don't see a reason to >>> kick or ban someone just because they're no longer an admin, even in a >>> members-only room. And in any case it all depends on what the owner does >>> (change affiliation from admin to member or admin to none or admin to >>> outcast). >> >> I think that if you're in a members-only room and you remove someone >> from the admin list, you'd expect all lists to be as they were prior >> to this act, except the admin list to not contain this person. That >> is: I would not expect removing people from the admin list to put them >> into another list. If this *is* what's desired, a user can logically >> remove from admin and add to members. > > In the client I use for room administration (Psi), there's an Owners > List, an Admins List, a Members List, and a Banned List. I assume that > if I add someone to one of the lists, they're no longer on any of the > others. I'd also assume that if I remove someone from a list, they're > not automatically added to another list (i.e., affiliation='none').
There's not a none list. None is the absense of being on any of the other lists. > However I would consider it reasonable in a members-only room for > removal from the Owners List or the Admins List to result in adding that > person to the Members List. The client could offer you that option, possibly as its default. But let's talk wire semantics. > In that regard members-only rooms are somewhat special, I think. > > Peter > > -- > Peter Saint-Andre > https://stpeter.im/ > >
