Hiding categories from new users

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Seth_Godin wants to hide most categories from new users (trust level 1) while allowing them access to a ‘playground’ category, with full access granted after reaching trust level 2. IAmGav explains that this can be achieved by adjusting category security settings to restrict access based on trust levels, treating them like groups IAmGav. Seth_Godin acknowledges he didn’t realize trust levels function as groups Seth_Godin. Simon_Manning adds that it’s unnecessary to create separate groups for higher trust levels (e.g., trust_level_3, trust_level_4) since users at those levels are automatically included in lower-level groups like trust_level_2 Simon_Manning.

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We have 20 active categories with lots of noise in them.

We’re about to invite 500 new people to join our platform, and don’t want to overwhelm them.

My thought was to have a category that can be seen by Level 1 trusted users along with everyone else.

and to restrict the rest of the categories to everyone level 2 or higher.

So that way, the newbies will have a playground to meet and connect and try it out, and then, after they’ve clicked and responded, could suddenly see the rest of the site.

Is that particularly difficult? Permissions by group makes sense, but I missed the step of automatically putting people into a group based on trust.

Thanks.

Failed to find this in search, forgive me if I wasn’t diligent enough…

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If you edit the category security, you can achieve it

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thanks. I didn’t realize that the trust levels were treated like groups.

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Just for the sake of simplifying a bit, adding higher trust levels with the same permissions isn’t necessary. So in the example screenshot, trust_level_3 and trust_level_4 aren’t needed because any tl3 or tl4 users will also be in the trust_level_2 group.