# User rank should be a little more forgiving and give more insight

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-rank-should-be-a-little-more-forgiving-and-give-more-insight/17759>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [July 19, 2014, 9:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-rank-should-be-a-little-more-forgiving-and-give-more-insight/17759 "2014-07-19T21:12:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sander78](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sander78/32/296615_2.png) [@Sander78](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sander78)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 9:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-rank-should-be-a-little-more-forgiving-and-give-more-insight/17759/1 "2014-07-19T21:12:44Z")

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I reached trust level 3 and yesterday found out by coincidence that I lost it again.

Discourse won’t tell you what you need to get a higher level (not that I know of), but it also won’t tell you when you lost it. I found out because I tried to edit a topic’s category, but the option was gone.

This is very inconvenient: what if you have a topic going on in the Lounge category? You can’t go back.

It turned out my reading percentage wasn’t high enough anymore. But what about vacations, etc? You go away for a while only to find out you lost access to certain things and you have no idea why (this time @codinghorror told me what the reason was).

Edit:  
And come on, I’m not reading enough? 😄  
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