# Trust Level Progress Display on Profile Page **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/trust-level-progress-display-on-profile-page/334951 **Category:** Feature **Tags:** trust-levels **Created:** [November 7, 2024, 12:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trust-level-progress-display-on-profile-page/334951 "2024-11-07T12:20:33Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![ondrej](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ondrej/32/198804_2.png) [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej) #### Post date: [November 7, 2024, 12:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trust-level-progress-display-on-profile-page/334951/2 "2024-11-07T12:29:03Z")
Hi Hayden 👋 It could be helpful in some cases and it depends on the type of community you have. It may make contributing more fun but by the same token, I would be inclined to say that it wouldn’t always “enhance user engagement” in the best way as users may stop posting ‘helpful’ posts in order to get to the next trust level. There was some discussion about this back in January of this year > [@Allow users to see trust level 3 progress on user profile](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-see-trust-level-3-progress-on-user-profile/16968/37): > > I am torn on this, cause the alternative is moderators needing to field the “I am not TL3 … tell me why?” PMs. Fielding this is mega annoying. The downside of a “secret” recipe is: Really for 99% of the sites it is not secret, cause nobody fiddles with the site setting, so you can just figure this out from places like about page etc… It feels like you are playing a “game” where the rules are opaque and arbitrary. Giving this feeling to the most trusted users on a site comes with a bad ta… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trust-level-progress-display-on-profile-page/334951)._