# Understanding Discourse Trust Levels

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-discourse-trust-levels/90752
**Category:** Blog
**Tags:** trust-levels
**Created:** [June 25, 2018, 11:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-discourse-trust-levels/90752 "2018-06-25T23:38:41Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2018, 11:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-discourse-trust-levels/90752/1 "2018-06-25T23:38:41Z")

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Originally published at: [Understanding Discourse Trust Levels](https://blog.discourse.org/2018/06/understanding-discourse-trust-levels/)  
   
The user trust system is a fundamental cornerstone of Discourse. Trust levels are a way of… Sandboxing new users in your community so that they cannot accidentally hurt themselves, or other users while they are learning what to do. Granting experienced users more rights over time, so that they can help everyone maintain and moderate…

For a detailed list of trust level permissions, please see [Trust Level Permissions Table (inc Moderator Roles)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trust-level-permissions-table-inc-moderator-roles/224824)

> [@Trust Level Permissions Reference](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trust-level-permissions-reference/224824/1):
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> This aims to be a comprehensive list of Discourse features, marked by Trust Level, and including the relevent admin settings which influence them:

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