Trust Level 1 -- Basic : Edit own posts for 3 - 5 days after posting

Hi :slight_smile:

It’s quite common that I think of better wording for a question I asked recently. But, often, the 1st day has already passed.

Reading Understanding Discourse Trust Levels I understand that:

  • Trust Level 0 -- New are able to edit their own posts for only 1 day after posting,
  • Trust Level 1 -- Basic are able to edit their own posts for only 1 day after posting,
  • Trust Level 2 -- Member are able to edit their own posts for up to 30 days after posting.

My opinion is that, for progressiveness, it would be good to set Trust Level 1 to be able to edit their own posts for 3 - 5 days after posting.

What do you think about that? :slight_smile:

Those as all settings that the admin can change. If it’s appropriate for your community to have longer you can change them. Search “post edit limit” in the admin settings.

I think the defaults are good enough for most communities.

I don’t think you can set different timeframes for tl0 and tl1 at the moment, because there is just one setting for both.

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True enough! I looked quickly and didn’t notice that the request was for three settings when there are only two. It’s not very hard to get to tl1, though, so another setting wouldn’t affect many users.

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(I’m not an admin, only a user of multiple instances.)

Would you agree to set that here?
Should I ask for it in an other category?

What paffman meant is that there’s not currently a setting for that in core, and adding it wouldn’t positively affect that many users, since it is quite easy to move from TL0 to TL1.

That’s what I understood.

What I meant is that:

  • For progressiveness, it would be better to set TL0 to 1 day and TL1 to 3 - 5 days, but if you prefer to set both to 3 - 5 days it doesn’t bother me. :slight_smile:
  • I would like you (one who is able) to set TL0 & TL1 to 3 - 5 days right here, on this server. (Do you agree? / Should I ask for it in an other category?)

That isn’t currently possible, it’d require a core Discourse update for that to occur.

(Also I can’t change settings here, I’m not admin, nor staff at all)

Might be me, but this feels like a very niche use case. Being active for a short while will typically bump one to TL2, so the state of being in TL1 and wanting to edit an over a day old post feels slim to me.

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I’m afraid we’re happy with the default and this is not something that we are currently open to changing here on meta.

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At that time, I compared my statistics to Understanding Discourse Trust Levels, and considering I come here only to improve discourse.gnome.org but not having Discourse as a main tool for myself, I thought TL2 was far away.

But now, I agree with you, since comparing my statistics again (I had enough things to ask or tell! :wink: ), it seems to me that I should bump to TL2, shouldn’t I?

Is there a moderator who could check which criteria is not true for my account, please? :slight_smile:

I’m moving this conversation to Site feedback since it appears to be more about how trust levels work on Meta than about the Discourse product in general.

You are TL2 here on meta already. Is there something you are wanting to do with one of your posts that you cannot? If so, please flag it for moderator attention and one of us will help you.

I don’t see any compelling arguments in this topic to make a change to how trust levels are set up here or to Discourse defaults (which I think is what motivated you to start this topic in the first place) given that it’s not hard to reach TL2 and the current settings work well for preventing spam.

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Thank you very much. :slight_smile:

Could you tell me what was wrong, please? :slight_smile:
I have exactly the same pb at discourse.gnome.org.

I agree. :slight_smile:
The pb is it was not automatic. It seems to be a bug somewhere.

It was automatic? I did not change anything manually to do with your trust levels. You are TL2 here.

Not really sure where this conversation is going so I am going to close this topic. If you learn something new about your problem that you think we can help you with, please start a new topic.

You can also reach out to folks at the other forum that you are on. We don’t have any control over how other sites set up their trust levels.

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