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User Privileges
Codidact will have a system of trust levels for user actions. These trust levels are based on specific site activity, not achieving specific reputation scores.
Numbers shown in bold are the defaults for full, active sites. We will also support a scaling factor for "small" or "new" sites, so privileges are achievable.
All changes to trust levels are logged.
This is the level of trust for brand new users. Contains a "new contributor" label.
- May post 3 questions per day, but no more often than one every 60 minutes.
- May post any number of answers, but no more often than one every 15 minutes.
- May comment infinitely on own questions/answers.
- May upvote answers to own questions.
(See these suggestions on messaging about rate limits.)
A level of trust for new members.
Requirements:
- At least 1 well-received (Wilson score above 0.5) question or answer.
New Perks:
- May post N questions per day, where N is the number of well-received questions or answers already posted, but at least 5. (Set a minimum so there's an increase from the previous level.)
- May upvote.
- May suggest edits.
- May raise flags.
- May post up to 10 comments per day on other people's questions/answers.
The standard level of trust for most users on the site.
Requirements:
- At least 5 well-received questions/answers.
New Perks:
- Question/answer/comment count restrictions are removed.
- May downvote.
The first level of moderation, intended for those who have an interest in moderating the site but not much time to do so.
Requirements:
- At least 50 accepted flags.
- At least 50 accepted edits.
- At least 15 well-received questions/answers.
New Perks:
- Ability to vote-to-close directly, rather than simply flagging.
- Ability to edit directly, without review.
- Ability to review suggested edits and flags.
- May protect posts from being answered by any TL0s. (Note: protection is not yet MVP.)
This is the level of trust for those wishing to become moderators - trial moderators, if you will.
Requirements:
- At least 250 successful reviews completed, with at least two categories having at least 50 each.
New Perks:
- May temporarily lock.
- May temporarily freeze posts, holding vote counts in place.
- May soft-delete posts.
Full moderators receive trust level 5, but may lose it upon becoming inactive.
Requirements:
- Voted in by community. (can be voted out again by community)
- Vetting by all current moderators.
New Perks:
- May permanently lock posts.
- May suspend specific permissions for users.
- May send private messages to users.
- May annotate users (to record information relevant for future moderation decisions).
- May view private messages and annotations.
- Has access to all moderation tools that we come up with in the future.
This is the only trust level not based on site-specific activity. It is granted to instance-level administrators when needed to carry out actions that cannot be (or are not being) carried outre by site moderators. It is not a permanent trust level; instance-level admins are "regular" users most of the time.
- May adjust Trust Levels of all TL2-5s.