# A new trust level: The Helpful member? **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**Author:** ![neil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/neil/32/102150_2.png) [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 9:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-new-trust-level-the-helpful-member/56894/15 "2017-02-06T21:47:17Z")
> [@erlend\_sh](#): > > Aside: do we have any way to output a list of users who were at some point in time a TL3 user on Meta? We create a record in the user\_histories table when trust level changes, so we could find anyone who had TL3 at some point. Some of the discussed options are already possible by changing the many site settings. - “tl3 time period” can create a much larger window of activity - “tl3 promotion min duration” can be increased to give a higher grace period before demotion to TL2 happens. If you don’t want demotion to happen, set this really high! - “tl3 requires days visited” can be more forgiving to people who follow activity from their email inboxes - “tl3 requires likes given/received” can increase requirement for quality - etc… There are probably factors that can’t be controlled, so we can try to find what those are. I think the automatic loss of TL3 is important, especially when conditions like receiving flags should cause the demotion. And it’s easy to change. Setting “tl3 promotion min duration” to 365 would give people a full year of TL3 without worrying about demotion, for example. I like your ideas @KajMagnus because I follow a few forums (Pebble, Gearbox, Sublime Text) via the summary emails and watched category notifications, but I’m not convinced that I should be granted special privileges above what TL2 gets that other TL3s on the site deserve. For example, if I want to recategorize a topic, I could send a PM to a moderator or a TL3 person to have it done. If they know me as a really helpful and trusted person on the site, they’ll probably do it. It could be formalized with a badge or group membership with some flair on my avatar, but I dunno about a TL2.5… Hmm. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-new-trust-level-the-helpful-member/56894)._