Users are requesting a new group setting to restrict membership based on trust level (e.g., TL2+), to prevent new or untrusted members from joining sensitive or moderated groups. ChrisBeach describes a political category where only established members should participate, while AquaL1te supports the idea for a grassroots forum, preferring TL1+ to ensure healthy contributors. They cite a meta thread where TL0 users abused public groups. not-ethan suggests a workaround using private categories with invite links, but AquaL1te argues this is inconsistent and less user- or staff-friendly compared to a native trust-level restriction feature.
I have a “robust” political category on my forum whose membership is controlled by a group. Members can opt in.
We’ve had problems with new members joining this group for activist purposes. I’d really prefer it was a place for established members who understand the etiquette and accept the rules.
It would be really helpful to have a new group setting where I could restrict membership to a trust level (e.g. TL2 and above). Attempts to join the group on TL0-1 would receive a helpful message explaining that the group is restricted to established members of the forum.
I have the same interest. I run a forum for a decentral grassroots organisation. So selecting group owners to then approve users is frowned upon. Of course “trust, but verify” does apply and this feature request would allow only people that proved themselves to be healthy contributers. I personally would like to set the threshold to TL1 for some groups.
It would also resolve situations as described below.
This can be achieved by making a private category only visible to TLx+ with an invite link to the group but there is nothing stopping users from sharing that invite link.