Make TL3 100 days a changeable Setting?

[Mittineague]

Continuing the discussion from Agreeing/Deferring/Disagreeing with Flags:

@Swang007

Hey there! Recently we’ve changed our site settings, reducing the number of flags it takes, increasing read posts, increased time spent reading, etc. to reach TL3. The goal was to make it more difficult to be promoted to Regular, and hopefully reduce the level of immaturity & annoyance of users in our Lounge category.

With this, the importance of flagging becomes a lot more relevant. Just one flag too many (within the last 100 days) will bump someone to TL2. My question is, do all flagged posts count against someone’s record to become a Regular, or only flags that moderators agree with?

Recently we had new member that was flagging posts unnecessarily like crazy, and we don’t want that to count against people that are trying to reach TL3 and access the Lounge.

I’m just thinking out loud here, but I’m wondering if it could be done fairly easily if the hard coded “100 days” that the Trust Level 3 requirement settings use might be better as a kind of “time period” setting.

I have a feeling that the status quo works fine as is for most cases, but I can’t help thinking it might be better if it could be tweaked to shorter or longer “prove yourself” time frames.

True, a member’s TL can be locked, but just the same.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Sure, I can support that being a site setting, @techapj can you add that to your list?

[techAPJ (Arpit Jalan)]

Done

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/f40249faad16aae54357c23f47bd409f0f10c6dd