SE, Please fix this FC exploit

[Canadane]

If you can promote above your own rank, that theoretically means you could promote your friend above you, then your friend could turn around and promote you, also. Next thing you know, everyone is promoted and has access to things they aren't meant to.

It's really time to revisit this.

There's only two ranks.
Leader and member. You can assign a sub-group of members to have promote powers who can give people up to and exceeding their own number in the list, but you can never promote someone to the leader. So saying you can promote someone above you isn't exactly true.

What would be nice to see is if the rank hierarchy would be taken into account for rank promotion/demotion and you cannot exceed past your rank, or perhaps one below. But it's been a couple years now including an expansion and nothings come of it, so I doubt we'll see anything soon.

[Rowyne]

There's only two ranks.
Leader and member. You can assign a sub-group of members to have promote powers who can give people up to and exceeding their own number in the list, but you can never promote someone to the leader. So saying you can promote someone above you isn't exactly true.

What would be nice to see is if the rank hierarchy would be taken into account for rank promotion/demotion and you cannot exceed past your rank, or perhaps one below. But it's been a couple years now including an expansion and nothings come of it, so I doubt we'll see anything soon.

I think that's what we're talking about here. The fact that many FCs create additional tiers of officers or sub-groups, and that it's still possible to promote someone to a rank higher than yourself because those ranks have been created.

I wasn't suggesting that anyone (who isn't already the FC master) could promote someone to master.

[HulveinBlitz]

What would be nice to see is if the rank hierarchy would be taken into account for rank promotion/demotion and you cannot exceed past your rank, or perhaps one below. But it's been a couple years now including an expansion and nothings come of it, so I doubt we'll see anything soon.

This. Period. Why even place a hierarchy, then allow people to promote above their rank in said structure?

It was a complete oversight. It should have been fixed long ago. It has nothing to do with inactive leaders being swapped, that's cool, whatever. However, you should never be able to PUSH yourself into another rank above you. Again, as mentioned.. its been ages.