The discussion revolves around the discrepancy between the expected daily like limits for User Trust Levels (UTL) in Discourse and the actual behavior observed by user khenmu. According to the trust level permissions table, UTL2 users should have a 1.5x multiplier on their daily like limit, but khenmu reports that after earning the ‘Out of Love’ badge at UTL2, they were unable to like posts despite not having reached their daily limit. JammyDodger clarifies that the like limits are controlled by admin settings and confirms the functionality works as intended on a test site. They suggest that the issue might stem from a cooldown period for liking posts too quickly, or a misunderstanding due to the ‘Out of Love’ badge being granted daily rather than upon a specific action. khenmu confirms the issue was related to exhausting the daily limit, not a cooldown, and JammyDodger acknowledges the need for clearer communication around the badge’s timing and its impact on like limits.
However, when I earned the Out of Love badge, I already had User Trust Level 2. As soon as I earned the badge, I could no longer like posts and was informed that I would need to wait until more time had passed. This makes me think either the initial 50 likes or the x1.5 multiplier is incorrect. If this is accurate, I would assume it is the latter, as otherwise the maths doesn’t work out very cleanly.
I was originally going to respond to the post asking whether he may have made a mistake, however, as I continued to look into it, I began to suspect he had correctly documented the intended behaviour.
For example, the blog post Understanding Discourse Trust Levels also cites a Likes multiplier for UTL2 (admittedly, I’m not sure whether this post is edited or allowed to become outdated over time).
Additionally, badge descriptions for UTL-related badges allude to the same;
So either the functionality was deliberately changed at some point and none of the resources documenting it were updated accordingly (certainly possible, given how large a project Discourse is), or the “have more likes per day” part of trust levels doesn’t appear to be working as intended.
Neither a rubyist nor familiar with the codebase, so I’m not able to take this one any further myself.
There are two messages you can receive about Likes - one is using all your daily allowance [1], and another for if you’re using them too quickly in a short space of time, which also has a cooldown period. I’m wondering if you triggered the second one instead of the first?
I’ve just had a quick blast on my test site with a TL2 test user just to be sure and it seems to be working as expected:
Just to add - The Out of Love badge is also granted daily, rather than triggered by a post action, so that may also account for a mismatch in when you got it versus how many Likes you had left for that day.
