# Questions about Trust Levels

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-about-trust-levels/236521
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 18, 2022, 1:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-about-trust-levels/236521 "2022-08-18T13:10:02Z")
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### Author: ![SaraDev](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/saradev/32/335139_2.png) [@SaraDev](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SaraDev)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2022, 6:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-about-trust-levels/236521/3 "2022-08-19T18:06:14Z")

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> [@per\_coh](#):
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> What does “entering” mean? If the user clicks on a topic, they’ve “entered” 1 topic?

Entering a topic means that a user opened/entered that topic, for example if you click on a topic and load the page in your browser. You can enter a topic, but you might not read all of the posts in said topic. So Topics Entered will reflect you opened/entered that topic.

> [@per\_coh](#):
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> If I open one topic with a lot of replies and zoom down with my scroll wheel, I’ll get this number pretty fast?

Posts read will indicate the number of posts that had that blue dot next to the time the post was made disappear, meaning you read the post.  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/0/a/d/0ad9394aacd029f0ec771b824ddb34a3d2e2a813.png)  
The exact time necessary to look at a post before consdering the post “read” changes depending on the length of the post, but typically you need to have a post on screen for at least a few seconds before the post will be consider read.

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> Could a user open a topic and go drink coffee for 10 minutes? How does the timer work?

The way Discourse tracks time reading posts is a little more complex, but there’s a couple keys points about how this is tracked:

- Each time you look at a topic we will log a maximum of **6 minutes** reading time per post (this will reset if you navigate away and back to the post). There is no upper limit on read time per post, a post can be read for days by a user if the user returns to a topic.
- If **3 minutes** pass and you have not scrolled at all, we disable this subsystem until stuff scrolls again

If you’re interested, you can read more about how we tracking reading time in Discourse here:

> [@How does post tracking work in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-post-tracking-work-in-discourse/115790):
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> Discourse tracks read time for every post users see on the screen. This system has evolved over the years and I find I often need to refer back to the code to figure out how this works and why it exists. This post covers the painful technical details of the current implementation. How the Discourse client tracks timing Post timing tracking is implemented in [screen-track.js.es6](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/a80c1f40111d6c56da10eefea91c9baa43b9f4b5/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/lib/screen-track.js.es6). This module is responsible for tracking how long a post has been on the screen and how long the topic has been on scr…

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