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?

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.

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.

[תמונה] Moin: 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? My settings: approve post count = 1 The two other settings in my categories are set to no.

[תמונה] Lilly: Perhaps the setting description is a bit confusing with a bit of a double negative in the words “unless” and “cannot” Sure, I wish the setting would be described as “Groups posts that do not need approval”, simply. And the other setting “Groups topics that do not need approval” Note: adding that for non native English speakers like me, the double negation is another hurdle.

[תמונה] Patrick EMIN: approve post count = 1 I think that’s why the first post of a tl1 user needs approval even if you set approve unless trust level to tl1.

Yes but posts queued in my case are not the first ones, so there is something else playing up.

There are a bunch of different things that could be going wrong on you site, and helping you is going to be a game of whack a mole for the rest of us. [תמונה] My suggestion to you would be to revert a lot of the site settings that you’ve changed back to the default and see how things go. For most communities the defaults are perfectly fine and you don’t need to change them. If you find that in your particular case you need to make some changes, for example to prevent spammers from signing up and posting, I wouldn’t change too many settings at a time to make troubleshooting any problems that come up easier for yourself. I agree many site setting descriptions are confusing and can be improved. We welcome concrete suggestions of better words, especially from people who don’t speak English as their first language and are confused by double negatives, peculiar english phrases, and so on. @simon we tried fixing the descriptions in some places, like personal message enabled groups. Allow users in these groups to CREATE personal messages. IMPORTANT: 1) all users can REPLY to messages. 2) Admins and mods can CREATE messages to any user. 3) Trust level groups include higher levels; choose trust_level_1 to allow TL1, TL2, TL3, TL4 but not allow TL0. 4) Group interaction settings override this setting for messaging specific groups. If we did this everywhere it would add tremendously to the copy, and add to the feeling that discourse is overly complex. Maybe the answer here is to add a validation so that you can only add one trust level. If you try to add more than one, it will pop up a warning explain how trust levels and permissions work.

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patrickemin (Patrick EMIN) 20 בספטמבר,‏ 2024,‏ 12:32pm 18

My settings:
approve post count = 1
The two other settings in my categories are set to no.

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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
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