The discussion revolves around the ability to disable trust level auto-promotion in Discourse. childofsol wants to disable auto-promotion for trust levels 2+ and keep levels 0 and 1 working with auto-promotion. sam suggests setting unreachable limits for trust levels 2+ as a workaround.
Some users, including Andrei_Cristof, think a toggle per trust level to enable or disable automatic promotion would be helpful. However, codinghorror and sam argue that this feature goes against the community-driven moderation philosophy of Discourse.
Alternative solutions, such as using custom user groups, are being explored by users like childofsol. ghufransyed and HAWK discuss a similar issue with trust level 0 and the need to prevent auto-promotion to trust level 1. The current workaround involves setting high limits for trust level 1 requirements, but users hope for a more elegant solution in the future.
I’m setting up a community and we’d like to disable auto-promotion so that we can use the trust system but have more manual control over it. More specifically, we’d like to leave levels 0 and 1 working with auto-promotion, but levels 2+ would require manual promotion
I haven’t seen any option for doing this. My current plan of action is to just set unreachable limits, but wanted to see if there is a proper to do it before applying my duct tape 
Thanks!
Should be fairly simple, just make tl2/3 impossible to achieve via site settings. That is in fact the proper way of doing it.
Would it be an idea to have a toggle per trust level (enable / disable automatic promotion) instead of having the admin enter multiple unattainable values to disable automatic promotion?
Its so rare to want I am not sure its worth adding.
We also do not want people to disable this unless they have very good reason to. Part of the promise of Discourse is that the community is trusted to help moderate itself. Turning trust levels off is counter to that philosophy.
I think we may attack this problem using custom user groups instead. It seems to be the proper way to do this (we’re still wrapping our heads around the system). Is there any word on when group administration features, specifically, granting a user permission to add/remove users from a group?
That’s on the wishlist, and I think some of the technical foundation has been laid already. Needs quite a bit of UI work, I think.
Understandable. However, it depends on the use case. For forums/communities, what you said makes perfect sense. But I want to use Discourse as a blog, and this feature request would be valuable, I don’t want to have blog visitors promote themselves to more rights all of a sudden.
So, a vote from me as well for this feature. Until then, I will do the same workaround but it would be nice to have it.
(Sorry for ressing an old topic, I needed to ask the same question so I found this).
Thing is, it is doable today, just make the promotion impossible to attain and … problem solved 
tl0 사용자의 승급을 불가능하게 만드는 방법이 있을까요? 익명 사용자는 특정 카테고리를 읽을 수 있고, 로그인된 특정 그룹 멤버(“contributors”)는 게시글 작성, 답글 등을 할 수 있도록 설정하고 싶습니다. 이 부분은 이미 정상적으로 작동하고 있습니다.
이제 계정이 없는 익명 독자에게 가입할 수 있는 옵션을 제공하되, 제가 수동으로 승급하지 않는 한 tl0에 제한되도록 하고 싶습니다. 이렇게 하면 알림 등을 받을 수는 있지만, 게시글 작성이나 답글 등은 불가능해집니다.
초대된 사용자의 기본 tl을 tl1로 설정해 두었는데, tl0 사용자가 자동으로 tl1로 승급되는 것을 막는 방법을 찾지 못하겠습니다. “tl1 requires topics entered”, “tl1 requires read posts”, “tl1 requires time spent” 설정을 터무니없이 큰 숫자로 지정하는 방법이 있겠지만, 좀 우아하지 않은 것 같습니다. 제가 놓치고 있는 더 나은 방법이 있을까요?
아니요. 그게 바로 그렇게 하는 방법입니다!
감사합니다! 새 사용자가 자동으로 가입하는 그룹을 제어할 수 있다면, 실제로는 Understanding groups and category permissions 이 필요했던 것 같습니다.