Moderator user groups

I seem to be having an issue understanding and controlling moderator user groups.

My user group structure is as follows:

Public 1
|— Events Mgt 4 9
|— Manager 6
|—|— Administrator 3 7
|—|— Events Admin 1 14
|—|— Membership Admin 1 11
|—|— Shop Admin 1 12
|—|— Staff Gen 4 15
|— Registered 13666 2
|—|— Author 3
|—|—|— Editor 4
|—|—|—|— Publisher 5
|—|— Member 4408 10
|— Super Users

In CB | Configuration | Moderation I have Moderation Groups set to Membership Admin and noted that it talks of this giving moderation privilege to the assigned group and above. I assumed this meant to it and its children and probably Super Users. But a test user in Staff Gen is also being treated as a moderator, though not those in the Member group.

I note in the CB Manual pp66-7 it talks of access to the assigned group and all groups below with an example that it means those listed below - which would explain the Staff Gen working but not the Member one not working.

Is there any way I can achieve my goal of having moderator rights restricted to Memberhip Admin and Super User groups?

J2.5.14 CB1.9 CBS 3.0

Having custom usergroups like that confuses CB. CB still uses parent > child relationships in most cases, but for J1.6+ this relationship usage doesn't exist anymore and its purely view access level and permission driven. The best I can suggest is try giving your Membership Admin group permission to edit users within CB > User Management > Options > Permissions.

Your suggested workaround is fine for controlling backend editing of user profile records.

However I have not found a way of giving a Membership Admin user a way of editing user records accessed via a user list in the front end. Is there a way I can achieve this, short of making them a Super Administrator?

You'd need to make them a CB Moderator so they'd need to have a usergroup that is considered a CB Moderator as configured in CB > Configuration > Moderation. They'd then need to navigate to the users profile on frontend and click to edit their profile on the CB Menu. There's no other alternative, sorry.