I fixed this in a rather simple way, in /admin/changeuser.php I just add a user to both group 2 and 3 if they are global mod. This will handle the fallback to mod status.

PHP Code

	if ($isgmod) {
		$newgroups[] = 2;
		$newgroups[] = 3;

Line 3 was added.

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