Are TL3 and TL2 requirements too different?

There isn’t much different between the powers of TL2 & TL3.

Users at trust level 3 can do the following (source). There’s not much there that I wouldn’t want someone I don’t know/trust to have. I’m not sure a intermediate level will help. What you CAN do is change the thresholds if they are too high for you - we thought they were, but found in reality they weren’t.

  1. recategorize and rename topics
  2. access a private “frequent flier’s lounge” category only visible to users at trust level 3 and higher
  3. have all their links followed (we remove automatic nofollow)
  4. spam flags cast on TL0 user posts immediately reach the action threshold
  5. Daily like limit increased by 2 ×