# How to make Trust Levels more visible to members and explain them?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-trust-levels-more-visible-to-members-and-explain-them/141483
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [13 februari 2020 om 09:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-trust-levels-more-visible-to-members-and-explain-them/141483 "2020-02-13T09:23:52Z")
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### Author: ![thegurjyot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/thegurjyot/32/120516_2.png) [@thegurjyot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thegurjyot)
#### Post date: [19 mei 2020 om 21:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-trust-levels-more-visible-to-members-and-explain-them/141483/22 "2020-05-19T21:31:05Z")

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Well the answers which I got in this thread are good but I took a slightly different path. Instead of just copying all the content from the Disourse Trust Levels article, I collected some important parts and made an infographic with it. It worked like a charm and now even if someone asks us then we just share the image and everything is done.

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### Author: ![EricGT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f1d935/32.png) [@EricGT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EricGT)
#### Post date: [19 mei 2020 om 21:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-trust-levels-more-visible-to-members-and-explain-them/141483/23 "2020-05-19T21:52:14Z")

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> [@thegurjyot](#):
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> wanted to know how other people are coping with this.

I was about to answer this but then saw

> [@thegurjyot](#):
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> I collected some important parts and made an infographic with it. It worked like a charm and now even if someone asks us then we just share the image and everything is done.

So the obvious question is, care to share the infographic?

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### Author: ![manuel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/manuel/32/468169_2.png) [@manuel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/manuel)
#### Post date: [12 september 2020 om 19:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-trust-levels-more-visible-to-members-and-explain-them/141483/24 "2020-09-12T19:16:20Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> The welcome pm all users get after signup (with a forced click screen highlighting the user drop down) links to the trust blog entry.

This blog post about trust levels is also linked from the trust level badges. I think that shows it’s considered good practice to explain trust levels. But with this setup users are send off the site and then presented a text thats actually written for admins. That’s double confusing..

I would find it helpful if there’s a faq page right on the site explaining trust level. This way user wont be send off-site and admins can easily adjust the information, similarly to the guidelines.

In general I would prefer to have faq separated from the guidelines and implemented as a section that can hold several pages.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [12 september 2020 om 19:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-trust-levels-more-visible-to-members-and-explain-them/141483/25 "2020-09-12T19:18:18Z")

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> [@manuel](#):
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> I would find it helpful if there’s a faq page right on the site explaining trust level. This way user wont be send off-site and admins can easily adjust the information, similarly to the guidelines.

Sure, you are free to set up your site however you like! But remember…

> [@codinghorror](#):
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> users will never read anything you put on the screen 🤷‍♂️

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### Author: ![manuel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/manuel/32/468169_2.png) [@manuel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/manuel)
#### Post date: [12 september 2020 om 19:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-trust-levels-more-visible-to-members-and-explain-them/141483/26 "2020-09-12T19:27:02Z")

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Is there a policy about using information from wiki posts on meta? I would like to put some topics explaining discourse functionality right on our site and wondered if i can use what’s on meta as building blocks?

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [12 september 2020 om 19:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-trust-levels-more-visible-to-members-and-explain-them/141483/27 "2020-09-12T19:27:28Z")

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Sure that is fine, go for it.

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