Group Member Roles 🥷

What are the group member roles in Keet?

In Keet, each group chat is an independent space with peers and admins and moderators who define the rules.

Admins and Moderators can restrict a user's access to their group, but this doesn't affect the other users' ability to start their own chats or join others.

Peer

• Can send messages and media, start group calls (if enabled).
• Can delete their own messages.
• Can invite others to join this group as Peers.
• Can report inappropriate content.

Moderator

• Can send messages and media, start group calls (if enabled).
• Can change the group name, description and avatar.
• Can pin text and media messages for all members.
• Can delete any messages in the group.
• Can mute/unmute¹ other peers.
• Can enable/disable calls in the group.
• Can enable/disable room activity events ²
• Can promote and invite others to join the group as a Moderator.
• Can report inappropriate content.
• Can see reported content and take appropriate actions.
• Can see reported users and take appropriate actions.
• Can remove users from the group.

Administrator

• Can send messages and media, start group calls (if enabled).
• Can change the group name, description and avatar.
• Can pin text and media messages for all members.
• Can delete any messages in the group.
• Can mute/unmute¹ other peers.
• Can enable/disable calls in the group.
• Can enable/disable room activity events ²
• Can change the role of any member, including promoting members to Moderator or Admin.
• Can invite others to join as group Administrators.
• Can report inappropriate content.
• Can see reported content and take appropriate actions.
• Can see reported users and take appropriate actions.
• Can remove users from the group.
• Have a responsibility to be frequently online — this helps new members and returning devices catch up on the group quickly.

How to change the roles of group members?

You get a role when you join a group, based on the invite you used. An Admin or Moderator can change it later from the group's info. You don't need a new invite, and the member doesn't need to leave and rejoin.

Open the group's info, scroll to the list of members, and select a member. Their 'Permissions' page shows their current role (marked 'Current') and the roles you can give them under 'Assign role':

Upgrade Peer to Moderator

• Open the member's 'Permissions' page.
• Expand 'Moderator' and select 'Make Moderator'. The change applies right away.

Downgrade Moderator to Peer

• Open the member's 'Permissions' page.
• Expand 'Peer', select 'Make Peer', and confirm with 'Downgrade'. It removes the moderator's capabilities from the member.
• Moderators can also downgrade themselves in the same way if they decide not to moderate the group anymore.

Downgrade Admin to Peer or Moderator

• Open the Admin's 'Permissions' page.
• Expand 'Peer' or 'Moderator' and select 'Make Peer' or 'Make Moderator'. Keet may ask you to confirm with 'Downgrade'.
• A group always needs an Admin. If you're the only Admin, Keet shows 'You are the only admin in the group. To change your role, assign another admin first.'
• Administrators can also downgrade themselves in the same way if they decide not to be an admin and not to moderate the group anymore.

Upgrade a member to an Admin

An Admin can promote any existing member to Admin from their 'Permissions' page. The member doesn't need a new invite, and they don't need to leave and rejoin the group.

1. Open the member's 'Permissions' page.
2. Expand 'Admin'. The card lists what Admins can do and reminds you that Admins must be frequently online.
3. Select 'Make Admin'.

The change applies right away, and Keet doesn't ask you to confirm it. Make sure it's the right person before you select the button.

The member's role updates immediately, and you see a notification that they're now an Admin. The new Admin gets a notification too, with a button to read about their new responsibilities:

Invite someone to a group as an Admin

If the person isn't in the group yet, you can still invite them directly as an Admin:

• As an Administrator, open the group's info and select 'Share invite link'.
• Set the invite type to 'Admin'; review and if agreeable accept the Admin rules; then select 'Generate new link'.
• Share the invite link with the user or let them scan the generated QR code to join as an Administrator.

Footnotes

1. the user will not be able to send massages in the chat and will not be notified that they are muted. Admins and Mods can't be muted. ↩ ↩²

2. displaying when peers enter/left the chat room ↩ ↩²