# A new trust level: The Helpful member?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-new-trust-level-the-helpful-member/56894>\
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**Created:** [February 4, 2017, 9:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-new-trust-level-the-helpful-member/56894 "2017-02-04T09:12:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 9:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-new-trust-level-the-helpful-member/56894/1 "2017-02-04T09:12:57Z")

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Hi,

I’m thinking Discourse forums might benefit from one more trust level, namely the _Helpful member_ or _Considerate member_. (Considerate means like kind & helpful.)

I’m thinking: Some people might visit the forum infrequently, and post helpful answers and stuff the community likes, and cast helpful flags. However, they are short of time and don’t visit often. They won’t become Regular members. But when you observe them over a long period of time (like a year?), it becomes clear that they are indeed kind and helpful people you can trust, and it could make sense to give them their own trust level and more power to help keep the forum a good place.

Now you might ask: Why have both Considerate and Regular members? Well, the difference is that the Regular members visit regularly, and thus are up-to-date with everything that happens in the forum. But the Considerate members don’t visit regularly, so they might not know what’s going on right now. And, since the Regular members are up-to-date with everything that’s happening right now, they could/should have a bit more power than the Considerate members, because the Regulars are in a better position to make goo decisions. (And only regular members would get access to the “frequent flier’s lounge”.)

A regular member that leaves and returns a year later, becomes a Considerate member (and thus loses some of his/her super powers, but not all of it).

(The reason I’m posting this topic, is actually not that I’m hoping/suggesting that anyone will implement it. Instead, I’m about to reuse Discourse’s trust levels in a project of mine, and I’m thinking about including this additional trust level too, and thus wonder what others think about that trust level. Plus, I think this discussion can be useful for the Discourse community — if it turns out Discourse could actually benefit from that “missing” trust level. Namely the kind-and-helpful members that visit infrequently only.)

(“Considerate” could perhaps be changed to “Helpful” or “Well-behaved” or “Kind” or …)

Anyone interested in this? What are your thoughts? Would you want this new trust level in Discourse?

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