When I look at the forum’s “Regular” badge , it reads: This badge is granted when you reach trust level 3. Thanks for being a regular part of our community over a period of months. You’re now one of the most active readers, and a reliable contributor that makes our community great. You can now recat…

It allows words too. It’s a pretty serious tool to be able to edit someone else’s posts, so yeah, just a tool for User Level 4, which is users selected by staff. The edits to posts are tracked the same as when you edit your own post (after the grace period). We could also just decide not to allow a…

I may not be understanding fully, but I’m not comfortable with people changing the wording of my posts, especially if I’m not around (quit checking the forum, died, etc.) to get the notification.

Again, any edits are viewable by anyone. I just added two extra periods to @bouteloua ’s post above as an example. You should now see an orange pencil on it: [image] Click on that and you should see an edit history, including who edited it and which changes they made: [image] So it is transpare…

I appreciate the explanations. But I think it would be more transparent if there were a different color for the edit pencil in those cases where someone other than the poster made an edit. (I rarely look through a post’s edits because before now I had assumed that all edits were made by the poster.) …

i don’t really need any special powers as a Regular user. really, i started this discussion just to clarify what Regular users could actually do and set everyone’s expectations appropriately. if there’s a way to edit the description on the Regular badge, that might help to get everything aligned.

Is a new user supposed to have a limit on replies they can answer? Why? Does a regular have a limit?

[image] bouteloua: More on the default trust levels here https://blog.discourse.org/2018/06/understanding-discourse-trust-levels/ This offers some explanation that might be helpful

Thanks! There is no limit on replies for new users though?

A new user can make no more than three replies in a topic until someone replies to them.

What about direct messages? A limit on replies to those?

What additional privileges (if any) does Regular status in this forum actually provide?

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astra_the_dragon February 1, 2021, 4:48pm 35

If there is one, I’m not telling ;)

Where is that extra category for forum moderators?

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What additional privileges (if any) does Regular status in this forum actually provide?

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