notriddle
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7 years ago To be a bit more specific, Discourse basically grants people with Trust Level 3 the ability to add and remove tags from other people's posts. This is super important! It means we can have a more sophisticated tagging system without putting all the work of keeping it clean onto the moderators!
They have a lot of them, and we can probably get very good millage by copying and adapting some of them:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/levenshtein-distance-spammer-emails-should-flag-accounts-that-are-similar-even-if-no-accounts-have-been-marked-as-spammers-yet/49858
Essentially, email addresses that are textually similar to already-blocked ones get forced through a moderator queue. For example,
example@gmail.comandex.ample@gmail.comhave an edit distance of one, so if the former gets banned, the latter will get forced through moderator approval before their posts show up.https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-do-user-trust-levels-do/4924
After registration, a user gains more power the longer they last on the site without being banned and make regular contributions. Full-blown editing and unilateral deleting is obviously only given to mods, but people with high trust levels get higher-priority flagging privileges, the ability to put more than two URLs in a comment, less rate-limiting of their comments, and the ability to edit categories on posts.
The last one seems particularly important, since the new FSTDT is probably going to have a more sophisticated categorization system than the current one, and we need all the help we can get to make it work.
Also, I assume anons act like perpetual "Trust Level 0," or might even have less privilege.