# Striking balance for level 0 user

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/striking-balance-for-level-0-user/265708>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [May 21, 2023, 3:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/striking-balance-for-level-0-user/265708 "2023-05-21T15:26:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![f-a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@f-a](https://meta.discourse.org/u/f-a)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 3:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/striking-balance-for-level-0-user/265708/1 "2023-05-21T15:26:21Z")

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Hello, I help moderating a Discourse programming community at `discourse.haskell.org`. Today we got [feedback from a user](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/restrictions-on-postings-by-new-users/6294/9). I will summarise it:

- He is a long time lurker.
- He joined discourse to post an RFC for a library he was developing.
- He could not post more than two links in his message (level 0 trust).

There have been some suggestions on the discussion:

- Do away with two-link limitation but send every first post in moderation.
- Make the [Understanding Discourse Trust Levels](https://blog.discourse.org/2018/06/understanding-discourse-trust-levels/) documentation more prominent.
- Do nothing.

But I am not looking for hard and fast rules, more about your opinion and experience on the inevitable level-0 vs. spammer friction and, if your community changed anything to the onboarding process, what you tried.

Thanks everyone and Discourse team for this very useful piece of software!

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