Enabled and Disabled

These values control whether a group gives a permission.

Imagine a user has two groups. One enables a permission, and the other disables it. Enabled normally wins, so the user can still do that action. Disabled alone does not take away a permission given by another group. Negate can change this, as explained below.

Power

Some actions also compare your power with a required value. For example, to ban someone with ban protection 100, you need the ban permission enabled and ban power of at least 100.

If your groups give different powers for the same action, the highest value normally wins. None means 0.

Negate

Imagine you want to stop certain people from speaking in a channel, even though their server groups give them enough talk power to speak there.

For example, the channel requires talk power 25. A Members server group gives 50, but you want people assigned to a Listener channel group to have only 10 in that channel.

Giving Listener talk power 10 is not enough on its own: the higher value, 50, would still win. Setting Negate on Listener's talk power makes its value of 10 take priority. The user now has 10 in that channel, so they cannot meet the required 25.

Negate affects only the permission it is set on. If several applicable groups set Negate on that permission, the lowest of those marked values wins. It also works with Enabled and Disabled: Disabled with Negate overrides ordinary Enabled values.

Skip

Now imagine you want moderators to keep their server talk power even when they are assigned to Listener in that channel.

Give the moderator's server group talk power 75 and set Skip on that permission. Their server talk power stays 75, even if Listener gives 10 with Negate. Without Skip, Listener would reduce it to 10.

Skip keeps that server permission from being changed by channel groups. It does not ignore Negate in other server groups, and it does not bypass channel requirements: talk power 75 is still too low for a channel requiring 100.

Grant

Imagine you want someone to edit picture permissions in a group, but leave its ban permissions locked.

Grant is the permission editing power required to change a particular setting. If the editor has permission editing power 50, they can change a picture setting with Grant 25, but cannot change a ban setting with Grant 75.

Without different Grant values, those settings would require the same editing power. The editor still needs permission to edit the group and cannot give permissions or powers they do not have. New permission rows start with Grant 1000.