Educating about trust level group memberships

[tobiaseigen]

@Moin

Right now, you can find out by reading the group descriptions

Yes, this is a fairly recent change we made to try to help educate about trust level groups.

@Moin

category permissions. Allowing for example tl1 to read and tl2 to read and reply should be possible.

I’m not suggesting a change to category permissions. I think that UI is clear enough and does allow giving permission by group. If you want to be able to do something weird like give TL0 create access but not give create access to TL1, then you can create additional groups.

We may want to add some explanatory text here with things to know about how admins, moderators, staff and trust levels work when setting up category security.

@Moin

trust level documentation is also on the to-do list, so that could still come)

This will be great! When we have a new trust levels, documentation topic we can link to it from the interface for those seeking to learn more.

@Moin

Maybe the admin guide would be a good place to explain it.

We used to do that, but removed it when we made some changes to the guide to try to make it easier and more helpful for first time site owners. There is a link to understanding trust levels, which I think is enough for now.

@tobiaseigen

If we did this everywhere it would add tremendously to the copy, and add to the feeling that discourse is overly complex. Maybe the answer here is to add a validation so that you can only add one trust level

I still think that the best approach is to improve the interface, so that Admins do not shoot themselves in the foot or get overly confused. In most cases, people don’t need to make any changes at all to these _allowed_groups settings. We already prevent admins and moderators from being removed from settings where they always are allowed, and can now also prevent more than one trust level group from being added.