# Set anonymous mode trust level

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-anonymous-mode-trust-level/104895>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** anonymous-mode\
**Created:** [December 22, 2018, 11:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-anonymous-mode-trust-level/104895 "2018-12-22T11:44:26Z")\
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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:** [December 25, 2018, 6:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-anonymous-mode-trust-level/104895/5 "2018-12-25T18:17:37Z")

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> [@sam](#):
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> pretty mixed on adding more features to the anon piece cause it feels to me it simply is not anon enough. If you want anon you use a throwaway account and connect via tor.

The anon user inheriting the trust level of the original account it was spawned from makes a lot of sense though. That seems easy to me? It is a single account variable we always expect to be there.

Inheriting other group memberships would be HUGELY weird though.

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