Badge that grants badge-giving privileges

Yeah, that’s a boolean flag on the badges. For example: Tester badge on Discourse Meta Upper-right.

Here’s a quick diagram of what is happening with the trust level badges.

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    Privilege <- manual
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Database Condition -> Badge <- manual
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                      Title <- manual

I could manually grant the “Elder” badge, or manually set your title to “Elder”, but neither of those are going to give you the ability to close a topic, while TL4 would.


What you want is user ACLs.

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