Member trust levels

A trust level (0–3) is calculated by the site from a person's reputation and history. It exists so that proven members are not slowed down by newcomer restrictions. It is not a role: the level gives no rights in the panel.

How to turn it on

Off by default: everyone is level 0 and everything works as before. Turn it on in “Reputation → Reputation settings → Trust levels”. The table of terms and the manually locked levels are on the “Trust levels” page in the Reputation section.

How the level is calculated

All the terms count at once: reputation points (without “Helpful” from one's own accounts), the age of the account with a confirmed email, accepted posts in different discussions, and days without spam and blocks.

• Level 1: account 3 days old, 3 discussions, 30 clean days.
• Level 2: 14 days, 15 discussions, 90 clean days.
• Level 3: 60 days, 50 discussions, 180 clean days.

A level rises no faster than one step a day and drops at once: a spam mark, a block, lost points or inactivity. Changing the password, email or second step lowers it by one step for 7 days.

What a level opens

• 1 — images in comments at once, without the newcomer pauses of the forum and news suggestions.
• 2 — comments and forum posts without pre-moderation; such a person's report weighs 2.
• 3 — a report weighs 3 and, if you allowed it, links without “nofollow”.

No level opens staff HTML and markup, files other than images, “follow” marks, hiding or editing someone else's content, or moderator rights.

Settings

• “Links without nofollow at the top level” — off by default. Turn it on only if you trust the community: otherwise it is a loophole for SEO spam. Do not turn it on for a site with open, unattended registration.
• “Auto-hide on reports: weight threshold” — how much report weight hides an item; 0 means never.
• “Account age for “Useful”, days” — 3 days by default.

Lock a level by hand

On the “Trust levels” page enter the login, the level and the reason. A moderator or administrator can lock only a level below the calculated one; above it, or for oneself, only the owner can. Every lock is written to the action log and the security events. “Remove the lock (compute automatically)” returns to automatic calculation.