# Make trust levels universal **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Building\ **Created:** [August 6, 2022, 4:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-trust-levels-universal/235319 "2022-08-06T16:58:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![not-ethan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/not-ethan/32/282617_2.png) [@not-ethan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/not-ethan)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-trust-levels-universal/235319/2 "2022-08-06T17:04:43Z")
NO! This would ruin part of what discourse is all about. Being decentralized. We should not do this then somebody can give themselves TL4 on their own forum and then go and troll and spam all other forums. You gaining TLs on each forum shows you know the rules, guidelines the culture around each community. It could also make it so people don’t want to use discourse because of the above reasons. Especially companies. * * * With Reddit, you can report the account and it can be banned from all of Reddit but not on discourse with it being decentralized. And since trolls can just make another account endlessly and instantly gain all privileges continuing this cycle. At least with Reddit its a harder to gain privileges especially by your self --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-trust-levels-universal/235319)._