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I wished moxie would have discussed more the group management aspects.

> Anyone can create a group, name it, give it an avatar icon, add members, and then everyone can chat together with a normal asynchronous experience.

Does this mean that any group member can add more members? Are there any IRC-like moderation features (even planned?), eg. privileged members who can remove users from group? Is there support for persistent groups (ie IRC channel equivalents)?

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TextSecure groups are fully egalitarian. Anyone may add members and no one may force an existing member to leave. There are no privileged members.

A group conversation persists locally on your own device unless you delete it, just like a normal conversation. The server does not store any records representing the group, so there's nothing to persist beyond the clients.

There is no plan to change these properties, afaik.

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