We apologize for the instability of composr.app and appreciate your patience. We are working on the statistics addon and trying to find an optimal way to store and render data. Unfortunately, we have yet to find a solution that can handle the traffic (and therefore, tens of millions of statistical records) of composr.app. We're working hard on one.
#3786 - tutorial incomprehensible or outdated on disabling rank ladder
The rank ladder option is coded up under that addon (a hook within the setup wizard belonging to that addon). It shouldn't be actually, so that's an issue.
"Will high ranked users still be dropping out of that group then" - I'm not sure what you mean by this.
But yes you'd delete any that flow from Newbie and rename Newbie.
"Will high ranked users still be dropping out of that group then" - I think you mean to ask what happens to members in group X when group X is deleted. When you delete you have to choose a group where they'll be moved to. This only applies to primary (not secondarily) usergroup memberships.
The rank ladder option is coded up under that addon (a hook within the setup wizard belonging to that addon). It shouldn't be actually, so that's an issue.
"Will high ranked users still be dropping out of that group then" - I'm not sure what you mean by this.
But yes you'd delete any that flow from Newbie and rename Newbie.
Issues fixed in:
https://github.com/ocproducts/composr/commit/cbb47818121b522661664e74d7c223b54d1255dc
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https://github.com/ocproducts/composr/commit/e9932e6d17b872a4b2f876913dd9fdfeb49caa9f