Hi @tizdaz,
As mentioned here, to advance from trust level 0 to trust level 1, new members need to:
- Enter 5 topics
- Read 5 posts
- Spend at least 15 minutes reading posts.
Once at TL1, you will be able to:
- Respond to a topic
- Create a new topic
- Edit your own post
- Post images
- Tag topics
- Send messages
- Post links
- Voting: 10 active votes allotted. You are able to vote for Wishlist items. If the topic is closed or archived, the votes are released to the users and can be applied to other topics but the vote count on the topic remains.
Hope this helps!