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David Cavins replied to the topic How to Best Organize Community Members by Roles? in the forum Creating & Extending 2 months, 3 weeks ago

I definitely recommend member types for this use case: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/member-types/

There are plugins to help you register a new type, and built-in support for types is much richer than if you go some custom field route. I’d say try it out and see.