Trust levels as Discourse?

[darkpollo]

Hi,
I am moving into Nodebb from Discourse, and I wonder if there is any option similar to the trust levels that discourse has in nodebb.

If not, what does people use as alternative?

Also, is there a discobot or similar to welcome automatically the users?

Thanks!

[julian]

@darkpollo We don't use trust levels in NodeBB. There's a lot to unpack as to why that is, so that's probably better suited for a blog post, but for the scope of this topic, we don't do this in NodeBB because it is overkill for small forums, and does not scale for large forums. (hot take )

We segregate used as "new users", as determined by the newbieReputationThreshold setting. This setting was recently renamed from newbiePostDelay, so older versions may need to search for that instead.

Once they pass that rep threshold, the configured restrictions do not apply.

Other than that, it's the typical forum stuff... mods, global mods, admins. Finer grained privileged access can be done on a category-to-category basis via the privileges table.

[crazycells]

@darkpollo addition to what @julian said, you can create different groups and put people in these groups automatically depending on their reputation and/or post numbers, and give them separate privileges... which probably will do something what you are looking for...

As an example, we have 5 levels of groups, starting from 500 reputation points and number of stars increases at 1000 points, 2000 points etc...

[darkpollo]

@julian and @crazycells
Thank you for the fast replies!
You helped me a lot.
Is there any docs or link that you know or can share to learn about how to setup the reputation and groups to control the privileges?
that could perfectly work for what we need!
I will do some search for the privileges table (sometimes it is difficult to know what are the names on different platforms! :D)

[julian]

Here, this may help: https://community.nodebb.org/topic/17243/categories-category-privileges

[darkpollo]

Yes! Thanks!
I was able to find a lot of information with the words "privileges" "reputation" and "groups", combined or alone.
I think the docs https://docs.nodebb.org/ need a section for users, not only for developers.

[julian]

@darkpollo Thanks for the feedback. Yes, some sort of user/admin manual would be a good idea. Unfortunately we do not have the technical writers available to do this sort of work

Getting technical documentation is already a feat

In the meantime, we did have @jay-moonah put together the "Answers" category, which contains quite a bit of admin-related materials.