For users who would like to increase their trust level to level 3, they need to read many topics and post. For a user who views most of the post via e-mail, Discourse does not have a way AFAIK to increase those counts necessary for reaching TL3 when the topics and post are read as an e-mail. Am I …

[image] EricGT: Am I correct that for those users the only way to increase the view numbers to reach TL3 is for them to visit the site more often and visit more topics and post at the site? Yes, you are correct. Discourse can’t know that they’ve read the posts unless they read them on the si…

I’m curious as to why someone would care about their TL if they don’t visit the site. They won’t get the benefits of added trust anyway. Can you elaborate?

[image] HAWK: I’m curious as to why someone would care about their TL if they don’t visit the site. This is just my guess, but the conversation with the user started when I noted that TL3 users earn Have all their links followed (we remove automatic nofollow) The user does visit the site …

Honestly, trust levels are for people who are, well, regulars. If they don’t actually use the community much, they’re not regulars. They’re members, who occasionally use it. I have this with my forum; we’re seasonal. The only people who will ever really be TL3 are the ones who hang out year round. …

Thanks for tanking time to respond. [image] Heather_Dudley: just turn off the option to add it? To me, the image after the quote is a wrong image. If the image was this [image] then it would be in more agreement, but in the reverse. It it were like this links follow Remove …

Poop, my bad. That’s what I get for multitasking. Sorry about that! I pasted the wrong screenshot. I’ve updated it with the correct one now.

Increasing trust level for user when they primarily view as e-mail?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) September 12, 2019, 10:36pm 7

Yes, you are correct.

Discourse can’t know that they’ve read the posts unless they read them on the site. It just doesn’t make sense to assume that because someone has been sent an email that they have, well, done anything.

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Increasing trust level for user when they primarily view as e-mail?

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