We came across a collection of rather active users who for some reason did not get promoted to TL2. Under closer scrutiny, we realised that they did not meet the criteria when restricted to public areas of the forum. E.g. they casted 20 likes, sent 5 messages and got likes back, but none of them in…

One aspect that is a little difficult to check is that the posts are replies to someone else’s topics. Asking a question and replying to those replying to you doesn’t count. This was the cause in Trust level promotion from T1 to T2 not working?

TL2 promotion seemingly only counts public contributions

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chapoi February 25, 2026, 10:46am 15

I’ve written a documentation topic about this, inspired by this question:

Discourse Trust Levels: A Detailed Explanation

Hope that helps.

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