Topic title editing with Trust level 3

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ChameleonScales reported an issue with editing topic titles and tags as a Trust Level 3 user on blenderartists.org. simon explained that Trust Level 3 users can edit topic titles and categories, but only for categories where they have permission to create topics, and not for archived topics or personal messages. ChameleonScales acknowledged the explanation and realized that the issue was due to not having create permission in the “forum gallery” category where the topics they tried to edit were located. simon also provided the relevant code snippet from the Discourse repository: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/lib/guardian/topic_guardian.rb#L68

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on blenderartists.org I have a trust level of 3.
On some topics that I didn’t create, I can see the pencil to edit their title and tags but not on most of them.
Unfortunately those that have the pencil don’t seem to have any characteristic in common with the others so I don’t know how to narrow down the cause of the issue.

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When the ‘trusted users can edit others’ setting is enabled, Trust Level 3 users should be able to edit topic titles and categories for categories that they have permission to create topics in. Trust Level 3 users cannot edit archived topics or personal messages. They can also not edit their own topics if the topic’s edit time limit has expired. Does this sound like what you are finding?

The code for this is here: discourse/lib/guardian/topic_guardian.rb at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub

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Thanks, right on the spot! And please forgive my ignorance. I was convinced there was a bug but the topics I was trying to edit were in the “forum gallery” category, in which I can’t create topics.