I want to: Create a custom Group (call it Newbies) Automatically add every new user to Newbies Seems simple but I haven’t been able to find the answer.

Here is my desired use case. Looking for possible solutions. All New users are automatically Group A and see X content, but not Y content. New users are manually put into Group B. Group B sees Y content, but not X content. I have tried this with trust levels this way: New users are TL1. TL1 sees Content X based on Topic level Security settings. The problem is that >TL1 users also see X content. I want to hide X content from >TL1. I feel like I have a good grasp on Trust Levels, Groups and Topic Security Settings, so I am looking for solutions I have overlooked.

Anyone have any creative solutions for this use case?

I really wish this would be a feature that’s available out of the box. Since Discourse already has the ability to add new users from a specific domain, it doesn’t seem that big of a stretch to let us have the ability to add all new users (regardless of domain) to a certain group designated as a primary group by the admin.

[image] zogstrip: If you want all the new users, you can always use the @trust_level_0 group. the problem with this solution is that TL0 also/always includes TL1 and above. There is no way to target those who are only TL0 I have wanted to have the ability to show content to NEW members for some time, and the way I was thinking of doing this was to have a category, only visible to new members, that includes the most basic materials for getting started, and would eventually disappear (as they are awarded TL1 or maybe TL2) I can create a category with security settings to show to TL0 but this does not achieve the desired result. Most settings around Trust Levels are additive, and not exclusive - so you get more and more access, but cannot use increasing trust to hide content that might be ‘noise’ I was thinking that a badge query might help by awarding it to new customers who join, and then have the badge revoked when they no longer qualify (e.g. “member where days since joined < 60”) - are revocation queries run automatically or is this something that we need to add? Unfortunately, you can’t use badges to limit access, as that belongs to Groups I know that there have been other thoughts around this (like this: What if badges could optionally synchronize group membership? ) but I can’t find any further developments Is there another way to achieve this (without a custom plugin, because we’re hosted)?

[image] zaino: Create a custom Group (call it Newbies) Automatically add every new user to Newbies Seems simple but I haven’t been able to find the answer. Same here. When we first get discourse, New users don’t even have a trust group. They do but it is very limited, a couple of badges and they are in T1, but the tag inordinately includes T1 if you tag @trust_level_0 …You can’t add automatic trust level without going to T0 first…even Discourse has not achieved it or made a plugin with that kind of system :thinking: [image] Robert_McIntosh: Is there another way to achieve this (without a custom plugin, because we’re hosted)? No, not that I am aware of. Or Discourse for that matter.

I realize I’m necro-posting here, but I have the same desire: I have a group that I want only members of a group to be able to see, b/c I want to exclude members of a a smaller group (larger group is “activists” smaller group is “elected officials”) I want to auto-add all new members to the main group (“activists”) This would be solved by having what @zaino said in their OP.

Maybe check out the automation plugin: Add users to groups through custom field automation

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zogstrip (Régis HANOL) January 31, 2020, 10:10am 2

That’s not currently supported short of writing a plugin to do that.

If you want all the new users, you can always use the @trust_level_0 group.

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