Trust Level Permissions Table (inc Moderator Roles)

[JammyDodger]

This aims to be a comprehensive list of Discourse features, marked by Trust Level, and including the relevant admin settings which influence them. If you spot something that’s missing or incorrect please leave a comment below.

Trust Level Grid - Defaults

TL = Trust Level dependant
= Can be enabled or adjusted by an admin setting

		TL0	TL1	TL2	TL3	TL4	Category Moderator	Moderator
[1]	Post Replies						TL
[2]	Post Topics						TL
	Reply as Linked Topic						TL
[3]	Reply by email						TL
[4]	Email-in New Topics						TL
[5]	Post Attachments						TL
[6]	Post Images	1					TL
[7]	Post Links	2					TL
[8]	Mention users in a post	2					TL
[9]	Use @here Mention						TL
[10]	Tag a Topic						TL
[11]	Create Tags						TL
	Manage Tags and Tag Groups
[12]	Create Polls						TL
	Close Any Poll
[13]	Edit Own Posts	24 hrs	24 hrs	30 days	30 days	no limit	TL	no limit
[14]	View Post Edit History
	Hide Edit Revisions
	Revert Edit Revisions
[15]	Edit Wikis						TL
[16]	Make their own posts into Wikis						TL
[17]	Edit all Posts
[18]	Delete Own Posts (not Topics, unless there are no replies)
[19]	Delete Other User’s Posts
[20]	View Deleted Posts
[21]	View Deleted Topics
[22]	Anonymous Posting						TL
[23]	Access Shared Drafts
	Access (default) Staff Category
[24]	See and Use Whispers
		TL0	TL1	TL2	TL3	TL4	Category Moderator	Moderator
[25]	Daily Like Limit/Multiplier	50	50	x1.5	x2	x3	TL	No Limit
[26]	Upload Avatar						TL
[27]	Profile Background						TL
[28]	Usercard Background						TL
	Mute other users						TL
[29]	Ignore other users						TL
[30]	View New User Post Messages						TL
[31]	View Returning User Post Messages						TL
	Have actual links in the ‘about me’ field of their profile						TL
[32]	Have all their links followed (automatic nofollow removed)						TL
[33]	Access the Lounge						TL
[34]	Have Shield Icon
	Manage Users Can view user info Can update user’s preferences Can adjust a user’s trust level							✓ ✓ ✓
		TL0	TL1	TL2	TL3	TL4	Category Moderator	Moderator
[35]	Flag Posts						TL
[36]	Can hide TL0 spam posts						TL
[37]	Flags count towards auto-supressing TL0 spammers						TL
[38]	Flagging a post immediately takes effect and hides the target post
	Review Posts and Flags
	Approve Users
	Silence or Suspend Users
	Anonymize or Delete Users
		TL0	TL1	TL2	TL3	TL4	Category Moderator	Moderator
[39]	Can send Personal Messages						TL
[40]	Invite outside users to PMs making a group PM						TL
[41]	Can send invites (inc. to specific topics)						TL
[42]	Can send personal messages to an email address						TL
		TL0	TL1	TL2	TL3	TL4	Category Moderator	Moderator
[43]	Re-categorize and rename topics						TL/Category
	Bulk Select Topics						TL
	Rebuild HTML						TL
	Add Staff Notice
	Add Staff Colour
	Lock Post
	Split and Merge Topics
	Delete Topic
	Merge Posts
	Pin/Unpin Topic Pin Topic Pin Topic Globally Make Banner					✓ ✓	✓ TL	✓ ✓ ✓
	Close Topics
	Archive Topics
	Make Topics Unlisted
	See Unlisted Topics in Topic List						TL
	Reset Topic Bump Date						TL
	Set Topic Timer Auto-Close Topic Auto-Close Topic After Last Post Auto-Bump Topic Close Temporarily Schedule Publishing Auto-Delete Topic Auto-Delete Replies					✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓	TL TL TL TL TL TL ✓ ✓	✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
	Set Slow Mode						TL
	Change Timestamp
	Make Personal Message/Public Topic
	Grant Badge
	Moderation History
[44]	Page Publishing
		TL0	TL1	TL2	TL3	TL4	Category Moderator	Moderator
	Edit Category Descriptions
	Watched Words
	View Logs (Staff Actions, Screened Emails, Screened IPs, Screened URLs, Search Logs)
	View Dashboard (no upgrade option)
[45]	Allow moderators to create and manage categories and groups
[46]	Allow moderators to change post ownership
[47]	Allow moderators to view user emails
	Plugins	TL0	TL1	TL2	TL3	TL4	Category Moderator	Moderator
[48]	Use Chat						TL
[49]	Messages allowed per 30secs	20	40	40	40	40	TL	No limit
[50]	Use Personal Chat						TL
[51]	Flag Chat messages						TL
[52]	Mark Solutions (discourse-solved)						TL
[53]	Vote Limit (discourse-topic-voting)	2	4	6	8	10
[54]	Endorsements (discourse-category-experts)	1	1	x2	x2	x3
[55]	Delete user notes (discourse-user-notes)
[56]	Use Saved Searches (discourse-saved-searches)						TL

To Do:

• Add First_Day limits, and Admin/Sysadmin additional abilities
• Check for more plugin abilities
• Create a Cut-Out-and-Keep interactive version
• Add links to sources/similar topics
• Improve mobile view of mini-sections

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1. max replies in first day
   newuser max replies per topic ↩︎

2. max topics in first day
   min trust to create topic ↩︎

3. reply by email enabled ↩︎

4. email in
   email in min trust ↩︎

5. newuser max attachments ↩︎

6. newuser max embedded media
   min trust to post embedded media
   review media unless trust level ↩︎

7. newuser max links
   min trust to post links ↩︎

8. enable mentions
   newuser max mentions per post
   max mentions per post ↩︎

9. min trust level for here mention ↩︎

10. tagging enabled
    min trust level to tag topics ↩︎

11. min trust to create tag ↩︎

12. poll minimum trust level to create ↩︎

13. min trust to edit post
    post edit time limit
    tl2 post edit time limit
    additional edits per day multiplier ↩︎

14. edit history visible to public ↩︎

15. min trust to edit wiki ↩︎

16. min trust to allow self wiki ↩︎

17. trusted users can edit others ↩︎

18. max post deletions per day
    max post deletions per minute ↩︎

19. tl4 delete posts and topics ↩︎

20. tl4 delete posts and topics ↩︎

21. tl4 delete posts and topics ↩︎

22. allow anonymous posting ↩︎

23. shared drafts category
    shared drafts min trust level ↩︎

24. enable whispers
    whispers allowed groups ↩︎

25. max likes per day
    additonal likes per day multiplier
    staff like weight ↩︎

26. allow uploaded avatars
    automatically download gravatars ↩︎

27. min trust level to allow profile background ↩︎

28. min trust level to allow user card background ↩︎

29. min trust level to allow ignore ↩︎

30. new user notice tl ↩︎

31. returning user notice tl ↩︎

32. tl3 links no follow ↩︎

33. /c/lounge/edit/security ↩︎

34. Make staff users more recognizable with customized avatars, posts, and mentions ↩︎

35. max flags per day
    additional flags per day multiplier
    min trust to flag posts
    allow flagging staff ↩︎

36. high trust flaggers auto hide posts ↩︎

37. num users to silence new user
    silence new user sensitivity ↩︎

38. hide post sensitivity ↩︎

39. personal message enabled groups
    max personal messages per day ↩︎

40. min trust level to allow invite ↩︎

41. min trust level to allow invite ↩︎

42. min trust to send email messages ↩︎

43. trusted users can edit others ↩︎

44. enable page publishing ↩︎

45. moderators manage categories and groups ↩︎

46. moderators change post ownership ↩︎

47. moderators view emails ↩︎

48. chat allowed groups ↩︎

49. chat allowed messages for other trust levels ↩︎

50. direct message enabled groups ↩︎

51. chat message flag allowed groups ↩︎

52. accept all solutions trust level ↩︎

53. vote limit ↩︎

54. max category expert endorsements per day
    additional category expert endorsements per day multiplier ↩︎

55. user notes moderators delete ↩︎

56. saved searches min trust level ↩︎

[Moin]

Sometimes it’s difficult to get which tick belongs to which permission

[JammyDodger]

Mobile view? Yes, I wasn’t sure about that. I did take the indent out of the Pinned and Topic Timer ones to help with those sections, but it appears they’ve slipped back in during a redraft. Though the Manage Users one is already left-aligned, so it wouldn’t be a magic bullet. I tried putting them in their own rows, but it didn’t have the same visual ‘togetherness’. I’ll add it to the To Do list and have a think.

[MentalNomad]

Fabulous reference, @JammyDodger !

Do we have permission to copy and post on our own Discourse instances? (Modified for our own custom settings, of course.)

[JammyDodger]

Absolutely. You can even pull up the raw version of the post by using the ‘raw’ link if that makes it easier?

https://meta.discourse.org/raw/224824/1

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

@JammyDodger I just want to say thanks again for creating this heroically amazing chart in response to my whining about outdated docs. I really appreciate it!

[JammyDodger]

No worries. Glad I could help.

And thanks to everyone who’s helping me keep it updated.

[agemo]

At first glance I thought this was an Admin screen where you could tailor the TL privileges in a one look one click overview matrix like this - should this not be a feature?

This would be amazing and also to be able to add new Trust Levels.

I mean who doesn’t need another need at least 4 more!

[mecay]

How did you make this table?

[Moin]

Add a table to your post using markdown

Creating a table in Discourse with markdown really easy. For this tutorial, we will use a table with three columns. You can create a table with as many columns as you want but keep in mind that the width of your post is limited, and a large table can be pretty ugly on mobile. The base of a table is really simple, each | character will represent one column. Between two | you can add the content that you want. You need to start and finish each line of your table with the character | First, you…

An easy way to see how someone did something is to quote the whole post with the symbol of the editor. You can also view the raw post by looking at /raw/topicnumber/postnumber
https://meta.discourse.org/raw/224824/1

[mecay]

Is there a way TL4 can mute users?

[ondrej]

I assume you mean Silence a user? TL4 can’t silence a user.

There is a mute feature though

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

What is the level at which people can post to closed topics?

[not-ethan (Ethan)]

Tl4. Any body that’s able to close a topic is able to reply to closed topics. So a tl0 with cat mod is still able to view it

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

That’s frustratingly easy to do if you’re not paying attention. We end up with people walking through walls they didn’t even notice were there.

[not-ethan (Ethan)]

There is a theme component to want people replying to closed topics

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

Nice! Installing that!

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

Hmm. Does not seem to work, at least on mobile. I’ll have to test more…

[mattdm (Matthew Miller)]

A few missing things (or things that I’m missing?):

• destroy a tag?
• manage tag synonyms?
• create tag groups?
• manage tag groups?