# Understanding The Forum Trust Levels

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**Created:** [April 23, 2021, 4:29am UTC](https://tzm.one/t/understanding-the-forum-trust-levels/795 "2021-04-23T04:29:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kees](https://tzm.one/user_avatar/tzm.one/kees/32/8442_2.png) [@Kees](https://tzm.one/u/Kees)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 4:29am UTC](https://tzm.one/t/understanding-the-forum-trust-levels/795/1 "2021-04-23T04:29:44Z")

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Trust Level (TL) operates as an automated system that progressively grants forum users expanded capabilities based on their participation patterns. This framework accomplishes two essential objectives: providing a gradual, user-friendly introduction to forum features while enhancing moderation efficiency.

You can reach TL1 through approximately 15 minutes of active forum engagement. Progression to TL2 generally requires about 15 days of consistent participation, including activities like posting comments and liking content. While these metrics accumulate over time with no need for daily activity to maintain TL1 and TL2, TL3 functions differently. Unlike lower levels, TL3 includes temporal requirements—your trust status may decrease if your participation significantly declines over time.

TL4 represents the highest trust level, effectively granting users soft moderation capabilities. This elite status is exclusively assigned through manual designation by moderators or administrators. Forum [staff members](https://tzm.one/about) retain the ability to manually adjust any trust levels when circumstances warrant. If you wish to request manual promotion consideration, please submit your request in this thread.

For detailed information regarding trust level criteria and their corresponding permissions:

> **[Understanding Discourse Trust Levels](https://blog.discourse.org/2018/06/understanding-discourse-trust-levels/)**
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> The user trust system is a fundamental cornerstone of Discourse. Trust levels are a way of…

The reference table below offers a comprehensive overview of specific permissions associated with each trust level.

> **[Trust Level Permissions Reference](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trust-level-permissions-reference/224824)**
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> 🔖 This reference aims to be a comprehensive list of Discourse features, marked by Trust Level, and including the relevant admin settings which influence them. Trust Level Grid - Defaults TL = Trust Level dependant ⚙ = Can be enabled or...