# How do Discourse's Trust Levels work on the Straight Dope? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 20, 2021, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-discourses-trust-levels-work-on-the-straight-dope/946914 "2021-07-20T21:19:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-discourses-trust-levels-work-on-the-straight-dope/946914/2 "2021-07-22T23:24:38Z")
I think I read somewhere you start at TL1, quickly go to TL2 and then are capped. If you can catch a new poster in the first few minutes of their SDMB experience, the name will be a little greyed out. I think that indicates TL1. We don’t have likes enabled which are apparently required for TL3. ETA: > [@What are the tags on certain people's profiles (Member, Charter Member, etc.), and what is the criteria for getting these (if there is any)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-tags-on-certain-peoples-profiles-member-charter-member-etc-and-what-is-the-criteria-for-getting-these-if-there-is-any/932927/17): > > Discourse has what it calls “trust levels” where basically members who have been around longer and have done things that make them more “trusted” have permissions to do things that regular members can’t do. We don’t use trust levels and had attempted to pretty much disable them, but our initial settings for that were not correct and some people ended up being promoted to higher trust levels where they could edit titles and could do a few other things that we intended to be done only by moderato… > [@How to ignore someone long-term](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-ignore-someone-long-term/940352/43): > > Also note that we do not use trust levels here. ~Max --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-discourses-trust-levels-work-on-the-straight-dope/946914)._