# Giving certain users permission to post without moderator approval
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/giving-certain-users-permission-to-post-without-moderator-approval/224305
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [April 14, 2022, 5:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/giving-certain-users-permission-to-post-without-moderator-approval/224305 "2022-04-14T17:03:56Z")
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### Author:  [@championquizzer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/championquizzer)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2022, 5:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/giving-certain-users-permission-to-post-without-moderator-approval/224305/1 "2022-04-14T17:03:56Z")
I intend to ask a moderation related query about a Discourse-powered
forum that I am managing. In the current setup,
I have adopted the moderation policy of manually approving each account
and every posts. I am doing this to prevent against the forum to be attacked
by trolls. I am quite content with the current setup although am
looking for a way to improve the moderation queue. I would like to
remove the moderation flag for trusted contributors, so they don’t need
any moderation approval to create new topics or reply to other users. Is
there a good and recommended way to do so?
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### Author:  [@not-ethan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/not-ethan)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/giving-certain-users-permission-to-post-without-moderator-approval/224305/2 "2022-04-14T17:28:00Z")
You are able to achieve this by making it so that once a user reaches TLx their posts or topics don’t need to be approved. Search `approve` in the forum settings.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2022, 10:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/giving-certain-users-permission-to-post-without-moderator-approval/224305/3 "2022-04-14T22:25:26Z")
> [@championquizzer](#):
>
> I have adopted the moderation policy of manually approving each account
> and every posts. I am doing this to prevent against the forum to be attacked
> by trolls
Discourse had built in tools to protect against that. Have you had trouble? If so, you can modify the trust level settings to limit who can get promoted.
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### Author:  [@championquizzer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/championquizzer)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2022, 1:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/giving-certain-users-permission-to-post-without-moderator-approval/224305/5 "2022-05-24T13:04:58Z")
Thank you to both!
> [@How\_To\_Roblox](#):
>
> You are able to achieve this by making it so that once a user reaches TLx their posts or topics don’t need to be approved. Search `approve` in the forum settings.
I have resorted to this solution for now but here’s some questions (and issues I am running into) :
1. I have a particular category which is simply a mirror of a mailman mailing list. Earlier I didn’t have to approve this post additionally on the forum but after changing the trust level settings, I am having to manually approve each and every message from these ‘staged accounts’ (user who post on the mailing list but don’t have a forum account). Is there a good way to change this behavior?
2. Apart from the trust level setting, I also have these settings per Category:
Require moderator approval of all new topics
Require moderator approval of all new replies
Hence, I am still having to approve _everything_. I guess, I will have to uncheck these, but can it have any unintended consequences?
Thanks again for the help. Much appreciated 🙂
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### Author:  [@championquizzer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/championquizzer)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2022, 1:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/giving-certain-users-permission-to-post-without-moderator-approval/224305/6 "2022-05-24T13:14:32Z")
I am afraid it’s not really a Discourse specific issue. For instance, some people would sign up with throwaway email accounts just to post spam; manually approving accounts has been of great help in this regard.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2022, 1:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/giving-certain-users-permission-to-post-without-moderator-approval/224305/7 "2022-05-24T13:45:27Z")
You can also use akismet if you’re not already.