Hi, I have a difficulty with that setting: approve unless allowed groups. This is my setting (TL1 to TL4 have been set, screen capture is in French): [screen-capture (Captioned by AI)] Based on the above setting, I expected my TL2 users posts not to be requiring approval, but they are. I may be misunderstanding the setting or another setting is interfering with my goal that TL1 and above TLs are not to be approved? Thanks for your ideas.

Are there any “review” settings, such as “review every post”, that are not default?

can you verify your test user trust level settings? because I just tested the same way with TL1,TL2 and TL3 as allowed, and my test TL0 user still needed approval. it shouldn’t matter if you add higher levels. [Screenshot 2024-09-19 at 6.00.53 PM] [Screenshot 2024-09-19 at 5.59.14 PM]

[תמונה] Patrick EMIN: approve unless allowed groups Ok this is what I did: “approve unless allowed groups” set to admin+moderators+TL1 only From my test user account who is on TL1, I posted a topic, this topic went to the approval queue As I understand the logic, it shouldn’t isn’t it? Note, my setting " approve new topics unless allowed groups" is the same as “approve unless allowed groups”

Oh wait, this was the first topic from that user, but posting the second topic did not go into the queue, so far so good. So I moved my test user to TL2 and posted a new topic, and… it went to the approval queue… And it shouldn’t, I am completely lost :crazy_face: I am an hopeless case :woozy_face: I will approve all the posts and topics for the time being. Thanks for your interest anyway !

I am still not understanding what the problem is. I also tested the settings for approve new topics unless allowed groups and they work as expected. I have the following settings: [Screenshot 2024-09-19 at 7.51.56 PM] And my test user that is TL1 cannot create new topics but can still make reply posts, which is exactly what is expected. TL0 requires approval for replies and new topics, while TL1 can post replies but cannot start new topics without approval. TL2 and above can do both without approval. Perhaps the setting description is a bit confusing with a bit of a double negative in the words “unless” and “cannot”. :thinking:

Yes using your settings my TL2 users replying require approval and they should not.

Did you enable different approval settings? Like the approve post count site setting or the Require moderator approval of all new replies and Require moderator approval of all new topics setting of the category?

[תמונה] Lilly: Perhaps the setting description is a bit confusing with a bit of a double negative in the words “unless” and “cannot”. It’s also confusing because it assumes that the person configuring the setting understands the internal implementation of trust level groups. Taken at face value, I’d assume that the default configuration of the setting was saying that any user who is not an admin, moderator, or TL0 user would require their posts to be approved. The setting is actually configuring the minimum trust level group that does not require approval. The setting’s default value (admins, moderators, trust_level_0) configures the site so that any user can post without approval (ignoring settings mentioned in @Heliosurge and @Moin’s posts). To require TL0’s posts to be approved, you’d remove trust_level_0 from the setting and add trust_level_1, etc… The person configuring the setting needs to know that membership in a trust level group also grants membership in lower trust level groups. The setting’s description doesn’t make that clear: “Posts created by users not in these groups must be approved.”

Very much agreed. Discourse has so many over lapping layers at times it can be intimidating and quite a challenge to figure out things just right. With achieving the desired results.

Agreed with the latest comments, it’s difficult to understand. I will check all my related settings.

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Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency) 20 בספטמבר,‏ 2024,‏ 4:02am 11

Hmm… Is your category settings maybe set to New Posts require approval? If so the category permission I believe will take precedence over the site setting if not mistaken.

נושא		תגובות	צפיות
Add "approve new topics unless trust level" setting Feature	11	2266	13 באפריל,‏ 2020
Trust Level Permissions Reference Using Discourse trust-levels , reference	31	28715	27 באוגוסט,‏ 2025
Changes coming to settings for giving access to features (from trust levels to groups) Announcements trust-levels	30	6553	2 במרץ,‏ 2025
Is it possible to limit TL0 to posting in one category? Feature	18	679	7 במאי,‏ 2026
Category moderation and trust levels Feature category-moderators	2	655	15 באפריל,‏ 2026

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