dartel
Esteemed Citizen of ZV
Accounts made before the lurker PM change were grandfathered in exempt from the restriction. So that still wouldn't matter.The group may have been made before the rule was put into place. I’m not sure how the rule affects existing groups, probably a question for a mod or admin.
If I had to guess, the group owner was either banned or requested their account deleted. So trying to join the group would result in no profile to be able to send a join request PM to. Want to say I saw before questions of how to change ownership of a group, which there probably isn't a way to do, thus the system wouldn't even automatically do it or anything upon the group owner's removal from site.
Groups are worthless anyway.