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Here’s a little bump of requests, and reasons for added user capability management and/or user roles in buddypress. Sorry for the list, but it seems like there is some resistance in the BP community to doing this, while there are many requests for it.

This couldn’t be done without user roles:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/sticky-a-group-in-the-directory/
Because clearly you won’t want to all anybody to make a group “sticky”

A recommendation to hack buddypress to create roles:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/assigning-user-roles-to-members-cant-find-it/

Crazy use of multiple wp plugins to create user roles for bp, with no success:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/setting-roles-for-registered-users/

End of this thread about restricting group creation
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/forum-user-roles-and-moderator-ability-bp-12-rc2-wp-291/

Another shaky attempt to restrict group creation
http://wpmu.org/how-to-restrict-buddypress-group-creation-based-on-user-roles-and-capabilities/

Unanswered request for user capabilities management admin
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/better-user-management-capabilities/

Another request not answered:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/customizingadding-group-user-roles/