@Heliosurge - I’d rather have a solution that involved an admin setting that allowed me to turn this ‘functionality’ off!
What you’re suggesting is that I automatically/manually promote all of my users to Trust Level 2. That doesn’t feel like a great solution to me!
Only about 6% of our users have made it on their own to Trust Level 2 so far, and have nice little badges on their profiles to prove it…
Basically what this ‘feature’ implies is that the Trust Level system in Discourse is now broken by design!