The discussion revolves around whether Discourse should automatically unlock trust level when a user loses group membership. Falco proposes this feature, citing a scenario where a user’s trust level remains locked after exiting a Patreon group. codinghorror suggests simply unlocking trust level should work, but Falco notes that trust levels can be locked for other reasons, such as manual lock or membership in another group. codinghorror finds this scenario unlikely, while Vocino emphasizes the need for automatic unlocking, especially when using the Patreon plugin. Falco agrees that trust level should be locked only while a user has membership to a group, but questions the details of implementation.
Manually managing the unlocking of trust levels is impossible when coupled with something like the Patreon plugin. Users fall off, their cards get declined, etc.
That’s my current use case for bringing this up anyway, there may be others.
It seems like trust level should be locked while you have membership to a group.