Ideally, I would love to give all users access to the ‘ignore’ function. Unfortunately, the TL2 restriction seems to be hardcoded into Discourse, and we cannot change it, though we have looked into it.
There are other reasons to use trust levels, one of which is report power. The higher a user’s trust level the more strength their flag will have, so we need to be careful how quickly we unlock that power as we don’t want to lead to a situation where new account start coming and auto-hiding posts they don’t like.
For anyone who doesn’t know about Trust Levels, we’ve created this guide for you.
The current requirements for level two are:
- Open 100 different topics
- Read 100 posts (could be the first post of each of those 100 topics)
- Spend 100 minutes reading posts across the forums
- Receive and Give 10 likes
- Create 20 posts
It is not a huge requirement, and if I remember correctly these requirements are lower than they were at launch. But it is enough to limit the potential damage some users can cause.
But again if you have any specific suggestions please feel free to open a thread tagged with forum-feedback. In theory, a post with that tag should ping me, and the team can look into it.