# How Discourse trust level works?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-discourse-trust-level-works/7946>\
**Category:** Community\
**Tags:** question, community\
**Created:** [December 23, 2017, 6:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-discourse-trust-level-works/7946 "2017-12-23T18:39:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![yakir12](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/yakir12/32/297_2.png) [@yakir12](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yakir12)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 9:03am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-discourse-trust-level-works/7946/30 "2017-12-24T09:03:11Z")

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> [@ScottPJones](#):
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> Disparaging other people’s questions or ideas, as being “ridiculous” or “absurd” or “unreasonable”, for example.

_That_ behavior is indeed below an acceptable level. And as I mentioned before, we do need to be nice to each other, especially in such large forums. But the gray zone is huge here. I’ve followed the never-ending [islower-lowercase-isupper-uppercase](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/problems-with-deprecations-of-islower-lowercase-isupper-uppercase/7797), and your own politeness was lacking at times too. Not in any major way, but you could have been slightly more polite. Just as the others could have been. My main point is that I think that no one has been overly rude without any repercussions, no matter what their role were. Or would you argue that people have been THAT impolite to warrant some retaliation and then didn’t get their due punishment because they were “above the law”?

> [@ScottPJones](#):
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> Also, there’s a big problem when the rudeness comes from people with some power on the forum, who can also block or censor people they don’t agree with, viewpoints that they don’t want to be heard.
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> I believe that is why @juliohm is concerned about how those admin/moderation rights are granted.

So this here can only fall into one of these two bins:

1. The moderators are a bunch of dictators abusing their powers to rule unjustly.
2. The moderators are literally doing their job: moderate.

Which is it?

I’d like to just highlight my list from before. These are two different issues, and should be kept somewhat separate:

1. The rudeness: some users with a lot of knowledge and skill are lacking in manners.
2. The moderators: the way administration/moderation rights are granted is not democratic.

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