# What Are "Group Memberships"?

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**Created:** [March 7, 2005, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-group-memberships/293282 "2005-03-07T01:13:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![inkleberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkleberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkleberry)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-group-memberships/293282/1 "2005-03-07T01:13:37Z")

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In everyone’s profile, there is a section called “Group Memberships.” Undoubtedly I am missing something here. 😕 Someone please clue me. What are these groups one could join? Where are they? Is this section just a relic from a former board section? Is it something in the works?

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-group-memberships/293282/2 "2005-03-07T19:35:25Z")

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It’s an option vBulletin makes available, but which we don’t have activated here. Near as I can figure, the purpose is to facilitate the formation of exclusive better-than-everyone-else elitist backstabbing cliques. I’ll have to leave it to a mod to say why we didn’t decide to enable them here.

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**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-group-memberships/293282/3 "2005-03-07T20:15:15Z")

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It’s just a polite way of referring to the orgies.

Have I said too much?

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**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-group-memberships/293282/4 "2005-03-07T20:24:21Z")

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I wanted to join the Sharks, but I couldn’t snap my fingers and prance rhythmically at the same time. ☹

😃