# "Hide new user profiles" setting applies to TL2 users

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-new-user-profiles-setting-applies-to-tl2-users/355768>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [March 5, 2025, 4:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-new-user-profiles-setting-applies-to-tl2-users/355768 "2025-03-05T04:14:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![JonahAragon1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f19dbf/32.png) [@JonahAragon1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JonahAragon1)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 4:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-new-user-profiles-setting-applies-to-tl2-users/355768/1 "2025-03-05T04:14:31Z")

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The description of this setting implies that only TL1/TL0 users are affected:

> Hide trust level 1 or lower user profiles from the public and trust level 1 users until they post for the first time.

However, if you manually promote a user that has not made any public posts for the first time to TL2, their profile is still hidden when this setting is enabled. I don’t see any way to make their profile public without completely disabling this setting.

I have a user who has no public posts, but is nevertheless active in our community and wanted a public profile to share contact information with others. I made a manual exception to their trust level so they could have one, and couldn’t figure out why their profile was still hidden before going through all the settings and discovering this behavior.

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