# Can I view Trust level 3 progress?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-view-trust-level-3-progress/290984
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** trust-levels
**Created:** [January 9, 2024, 10:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-view-trust-level-3-progress/290984 "2024-01-09T10:00:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@aron\_bett](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aron_bett)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2024, 10:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-view-trust-level-3-progress/290984/1 "2024-01-09T10:00:26Z")
I wonder why I still don’t have Trust Level 3.
Is there a way I (or the admin) can check my progress?
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### Author:  [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2024, 10:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-view-trust-level-3-progress/290984/2 "2024-01-09T10:10:32Z")
Hi Aron,
The screenshot you posted is not from Meta, right?
I’d reach out to the admins of the relevant community and ask them, since the requirements for TL3 can be different across Discourse instances. 🙂
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### Author:  [@aron\_bett](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aron_bett)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2024, 10:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-view-trust-level-3-progress/290984/3 "2024-01-09T10:15:35Z")
Hi, found it in my community
May I ask, what’s meant by topics viewed (_all time_)?
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### Author:  [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2024, 10:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-view-trust-level-3-progress/290984/4 "2024-01-09T10:16:51Z")
it’s how many topics you have read during your time as a registered user on the specific community.
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### Author:  [@aron\_bett](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aron_bett)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2024, 10:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-view-trust-level-3-progress/290984/5 "2024-01-09T10:19:51Z")
so what’s the difference between the number of topics viewed in the two screenshots I shared? The first indicates 206, the second shows 160.
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### Author:  [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2024, 10:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-view-trust-level-3-progress/290984/9 "2024-01-09T10:43:02Z")
Ah yes, the count on the summary page is a simpler model than the TL one. So the numbers can differ a bit.
The summary also counts PMs, deleted topics etc.
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### Author:  [@aron\_bett](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aron_bett)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2024, 10:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-view-trust-level-3-progress/290984/10 "2024-01-09T10:59:32Z")
Apparently, I can’t create tags after being promoted to Trust Level 3. What might be the problem?
By the way, what does it means to unlock trust level? When I am upgraded to level 3, I get locked. When the trust level is unlocked, I go back to level 2.
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### Author:  [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2024, 11:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-view-trust-level-3-progress/290984/11 "2024-01-09T11:07:24Z")
Hi Aron,
I’m confused, are you the admin of this community?
Otherwise you really need to ask the admin what their required settings are for creating tags 🙂
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Locking a trust level means that instead of the automatic process to grant a TL. This is how you can be TL3 without qualifying according to the rules of the community.
Unlocking it will revert back to the automated process (which will thus bump you back down to TL2).
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### Author:  [@aron\_bett](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aron_bett)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2024, 11:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-view-trust-level-3-progress/290984/12 "2024-01-09T11:10:24Z")
Hi, sorry for the confusion. My boss is the admin and wanted to promote me to TL3 with the objective of creating tags, etc.
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### Author:  [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2024, 11:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-view-trust-level-3-progress/290984/13 "2024-01-09T11:13:24Z")
Right, got it!
Ask your boss what[TL requirement they have set for the tagging permission](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-allow-someone-to-create-tags/276179/3) 🙂
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### Author:  [@aron\_bett](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aron_bett)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2024, 11:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-view-trust-level-3-progress/290984/17 "2024-01-09T11:23:30Z")
While I have been manually promoted to regular, my top badge under user still shows member, why is that?
He has already set the minimum reguirement to create tags to TL3, but I still don’t have permission to create tags.
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### Author:  [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2024, 11:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-view-trust-level-3-progress/290984/18 "2024-01-09T11:32:31Z")
Ah, it could be that you are caught in a small update that changed this specific setting!
> [@Changes coming to settings for giving access to features (from trust levels to groups)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changes-coming-to-settings-for-giving-access-to-features-from-trust-levels-to-groups/283408):
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> Many features in Discourse rely on a setting to give access by trust level. This has proven to be too inflexible over the years, so we are moving to a new practice of giving access to members of specific groups instead. We will now begin moving existing settings relying on trust levels so they instead rely on groups - see the list below that we are targeting. Some settings will remain trust level based where it makes sense. As we move along we will update the list and add replies here. Do let u…
So perhaps you could ask your boss to take a look at the settings and search for " create tag allowed groups"?
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### Author:  [@aron\_bett](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aron_bett)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2024, 3:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-view-trust-level-3-progress/290984/19 "2024-01-09T15:50:51Z")
He couldn’t find the " create tag allowed groups". Is that only available for version 3.2? we are still on version 3.1.
What’s more confusing is that I got a message that I have been promoted to Trust Level 3, but my user profile is still showing “member”. So I don’t know which priviledges I now have.
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### Author:  [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-view-trust-level-3-progress/290984/20 "2024-01-09T15:58:58Z")
Hiya Aron 👋
To see what TL you are at find the part I underlined in red on your account in the other forum. The badges can take a while to update.
Nope. Its definitely available on 3.1
Ask your boss to look here `/admin/site_settings/category/tags`. If they scroll down they will find the setting.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-view-trust-level-3-progress/290984/21 "2024-01-09T16:08:47Z")
It may also be worth the admin checking if there are any tag restrictions in that category, as that could prevent the creation of new tags on topics created in them.
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### Author:  [@aron\_bett](https://meta.discourse.org/u/aron_bett)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2024, 6:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-view-trust-level-3-progress/290984/22 "2024-01-09T18:53:44Z")
Thank you. This was helpful.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2024, 9:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-view-trust-level-3-progress/290984/23 "2024-01-09T21:56:02Z")
Ask your boss to change your trust level. If he wants you to be TL3, he can just change it on your admin user page and none of the requirements matter.
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### Author:  [@Mark\_Britton](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mark_Britton)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2024, 12:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-view-trust-level-3-progress/290984/24 "2024-09-03T12:15:40Z")
> [@aron\_bett](#):
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> Hi, found it in my community
Can someone help me find my way to where I see this please? I want to see trust level progression for given users.
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### Author:  [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2024, 8:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-view-trust-level-3-progress/290984/25 "2024-09-03T20:33:55Z")
What Aron posted above is currently only viewable by staff. It can be found by navigating to the [user admin page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessing-a-user-s-admin-page/311859). Scroll down to ‘Permissions’ and then ‘Trust Level 3 Requirements’.
There was some talk back in January of this year about this
> [@Allow users to see trust level 3 progress on user profile](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-see-trust-level-3-progress-on-user-profile/16968/37):
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> I am torn on this, cause the alternative is moderators needing to field the “I am not TL3 … tell me why?” PMs. Fielding this is mega annoying. The downside of a “secret” recipe is: Really for 99% of the sites it is not secret, cause nobody fiddles with the site setting, so you can just figure this out from places like about page etc… It feels like you are playing a “game” where the rules are opaque and arbitrary. Giving this feeling to the most trusted users on a site comes with a bad ta…
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### Author:  [@Mark\_Britton](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mark_Britton)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2024, 9:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-view-trust-level-3-progress/290984/26 "2024-09-04T09:54:57Z")
Brilliant. Got it. Appreciating you!
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