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Originally Posted by John Lester

It is so much easier to just add a new rank to the user group. No need to make a user group for each rank.

ACP -> User Ranks -> Add new user rank

Number of times to repeat rank = 1
User group = whatever
Max posts = whatever
Stack Ranks = no (I also did this with yes but saw no difference)
Display type = always

User rank file path /images/ranks/vip.png (example only)

Save

Repeat for additional ranks on the same user group. This will display the ranks on top of each other (vertically) to make them display horizontally I'm pretty sure you have to edit the postbit or legacy postbit template (depends on which one you use).

You are correct John, if you are only using simple usergroups tags. However, this doesn't work in all cases. I can give you an example here.

Usergroup: Musician
Permissions: Access to hidden forum
Info: in their profile and the info includes what instruments they play. Now remember on top of this that I have 21 different ranks. Your method would not work for this.

New Member profile is musician, but they are new. By default they have a new member user rank. In the AdminCP all I have to do is select groups from the secondary list. This is where you have to remember that permissions for a secondary usergroup will grant access permissions that you may not want to the primary usergroup.

My way is a little more work to set up initially, but it's a lot easier to manage after it's set up.