# Badge that grants badge-giving privileges

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/badge-that-grants-badge-giving-privileges/21450
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** badges, completed
**Created:** [23.Октябрь.2014 14:20:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badge-that-grants-badge-giving-privileges/21450 "2014-10-23T14:20:25Z")
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### Author: ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [25.Октябрь.2014 06:46:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badge-that-grants-badge-giving-privileges/21450/7 "2014-10-25T06:46:42Z")

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> [@erlend\_sh](#):
>
> that some special badges could grant you a new title

Yeah, that’s a boolean flag on the badges. For example: [Discourse Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/badges/116/tester) Upper-right.

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

```plaintext
  Auto Promotion
        |
        V
    Privilege <- manual
        |
        V
Database Condition -> Badge <- manual
                        |
                        V
                      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.

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What you want is user ACLs.

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