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Originally Posted by John Lester

With regards to having to check the box "Restrict Entry Viewing to Contacts and Blog and Moderators." on private blogs is to prevent members not on your contact / blog list from seeing your blog. I am assuming that making the blog private only prevents guests from viewing it, therefore the box to restrict entry.

Interesting. I run a private board so I did not even think about that. Thank you!

I am not a fan at all of how vB did the blog and permission system. It is entirely too complicated and too rigid for my tastes.

I really have never used the blog system. I am just trying to help out 'djbaxter'. Now that I am looking into the code, I am less impressed. The permission system seems to be patched on top of being patched. My own software gets like that overtime too, so I am not going to harp on the vb developers.

I did not consider secondary groups ... yea that could be an issue in some situations. I would suggest cloning the secondary user group(s) of your supermods so you can block both groups without affecting non supermods.

That was my first thinking to and I might come back to it. I am looking at creating another bit in the bitfield to handle supermod and if set then unmasking the 'private' bit in function "can_moderate_blog()". It is only a concept and I have not worked it all out.

Hey, thanks so much for the help. Hopefully I can return the favor