How to transfer ownership of a forum social-group like a DCG to another user

Steps for present DCG owner looking to transfer forum ownership to a new forum user:

*** NOTICE: this is only for forums. if you plan to transfer ownership in the real world (such as establish a different POC), visit https://defcongroups.org/index.html and contact the DCG coordinator to start the process to transfer responsibility to a new person.

*** NOTICE: For this article, the user "dc_pitascii" is a test user used to document and validate processes or debug reported issues, while the user "number6" is presently a forum Admin taking the place of a DCG owner for this test and documentation.

*** NOTICE: This DCG being transferred is fictional. It was created by sleestak for testing, documentation, and validation. It may be deleted at any time. (Thanks Sleestak!)

• Present DCG "owner" completes login to forums account.
• Owner visits https://forum.defcon.org/social-groups
• Owner finds the social-group DCG in this part of the forums they wish to transfer to another user and click on this DCG (Example: https://forum.defcon.org/node/231536 )
• Owner locates "gear" icon under lower-right corner of the far right DCG image/icon, and left-clicks. (If you are not an owner or forum Admin or maybe "Forum SuperMod", you probably won't see the gear.)
• A "DCG Moderator" is NOT a forum moderator. Forum moderators moderate all forum content anywhere and can ban users. DCG Moderators only have limited controls for *content* management within the DCG social space, not user management. They cannot ban, or unban users.
• A drop-down menu appears, Owner locates line item in drop-down called "Manage Group Manager"

• New page loads: Owner locates large text-field for , "Add Leader/Organizer" types or pastes the username of the account to eventually become new owner, then owner clicks the submit button called "Add"

• Same updated page re-loads, showing the new username added as "moderator" listed on a row near another row with "owner"
• Owner locates a submit button on the same row as their username, a button named, "transfer," and selects "transfer"
• New Pop-up appears, "Transfer Group Ownership": present owner re-types the username previously added as a "Leader/Organizer".

• Present owner choose "Send Request"
• For a short time (until the new owner accepts ownership) the present, old owner can cancel the transfer. After the new owner accepts, the cancel option will no longer work:

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Steps for new, to-be, DCG owner looking to accept transfer of ownership:

• New to-be Owner logs into forums account.
• New to-be Owner locates top-right gray bar above "Forum search box" then locates text/link "Notifcations" , and selects "Notifications"
• Drop-down should appear, and the new to-be owner should locate the row named "Requests" and select it.

• A new page loads. New to-be owner should locate a request in the form "OLD_OWNER_USER_NAME has invited you to be a moderator of NAME_OF_DCG_LOCATION_LOCATION" with choices "Ignore" or "Accept": choose accept

• Confirmation appears, select ok:

• New page loads. New to-be owner should locate a request in the form "OLD_OWNER_USER_NAME has invited you to be an owner of NAME_OF_DCG_LOCATION_LOCATION" with choices "Ignore" or "Accept": choose accept

• New to-be Owner then should see confirmation. Select ok:

• Now the "New to-be Owner" should be the "Owner" of the DCG.
• Now, the Old-Owner is no longer owner. If they were also a "Leader/Organizer" or "DCG Manager" or "DCG Moderator" the new owner can remove them if they want to.
• New Owner visits https://forum.defcon.org/social-groups
• New Owner should locate the DCG where they are now owner and click on the link for it. (New-Owner finds DCG in this part of the forums and click on their DCG (Example: https://forum.defcon.org/node/231536 ))
• New-Owners locates "gear" icon under lower-right corner of the far right DCG icon/image, and left-clicks the gear.
• A drop-down menu appears, New-Owner locates line item in drop-down called "Manage Group Manager"

• New page loads showing New-Owner or Leader/Organizer, and any existing Group Managers, and options to add more Leader/Organizers.

• New-Owner can see if old owner is listed and remove them as a leader/organizer or manager or "DCG Moderator" .
• Process is complete.
• Optional steps for new owner of a DCG Social Group:
  • New Owner can review:
  • General Settings
  • Post Settings
  • Group Managers
  • Joined Members
  • Subscribers
  • Invite members
  • Edit Group Icon (the image people see): Only "Browse an image from your hard drive and upload." is supported. The option to specify a URL to have forums "download" an image for you, probably won't work due to restrictions.