# Is auto-promoting TL3s a sensible choice? **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Building\ **Tags:** trust-levels\ **Created:** [April 16, 2023, 9:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-auto-promoting-tl3s-a-sensible-choice/262652 "2023-04-16T09:03:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2023, 12:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-auto-promoting-tl3s-a-sensible-choice/262652/10 "2023-04-16T12:32:20Z")
I mean, there’s a lot to unpack here, but I’ll prefix this with the universal reminder to keep conversation cool, calm and collected. Discussing Discourse features should not be a fraught experience. 🙂 The category moderation seems to be a small part of what your OP raised and it’s a shame to distract from that, but just in case you missed it: > [@Crius](#): > > TL3 is an automated role given by the system in which you have no control apart from making it harder or easier to obtain and thus, it cannot be considered a solution because the staff have no control in that regard. You can manually grant TL3 from the `admin/user/` page for a user, as well as lock a TL to a lower one if, for instance, someone attains one but turns out they can’t be trusted with the added perks it brings. Have you considered manually bumping your category moderators up to TL3 so they can move topics between categories? Admittedly Slow Mode is currently a TL4 feature and you may not want to grant those abilities sitewide, but (as I mentioned previously) I think there is a good case to be made for allowing that to be a cat mod perk if you create a #Contribute > Feature request for it. Are there any other abilities you think are missing? --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-auto-promoting-tl3s-a-sensible-choice/262652)._