Being a Group Owner is not forever, and to ensure that the quality of Groups remain high, we transfer ownership away from inactive users. Below are details of just exactly how we decide to re-allocate a Group Owner. We'll send the old and new Group Owners a notification whenever this happens.
Leaving a Group
If you own a free group, and leave, you have 24 hours to re-join.
If you own a Premium Group, and leave, you have 7 days to re-join.
If you do not re-join in this time period your Ownership will be transferred.
Inactive Users
If you do not log in to your Account for more than 40 days, ALL of your Groups will be transferred.
Non-Premium Group
When a group owner leaves a group, at that point, if an owner of a non-Premium Group has left more than 24 hours the Group will be reallocated.
If the Group is normal (has users inside, etc), if there is no owner, the reallocation logic goes through Group Admins and marks the highest level admin as the new owner. If there are no Admins, the same logic is followed for Moderators. If there are no Moderators, it will then turn to the highest level user.
If the user is a bot or a banned user, then they will be ignored.
Both parties would be would notified of the Group owner change via PN: previous owner and new owner.
Premium Group
When a Group owner leaves a Group, at that point, if an owner of a Premium Group has left more than 72 hours the Group reallocated.
If the Group is normal (has users inside, etc), if there is no owner, the reallocation logic goes through Group Admins and marks the highest level admin as the new owner. If there are no Admins, the same logic is followed for Moderators. If there are no Moderators, it will then turn to the highest level user.
If the user is a bot or a banned user, then they will be ignored.
Both parties would be would notified of the Group owner change via PN: previous owner and new owner.