User trust levels are a way of structuring the community to be self-sufficient and self-regulated by granting experienced users more rights to help maintain and moderate the community that they’re already a part of.
The trust levels are part of an integral and automated system here in the Realtime VFX Community - promotions happen automatically as the requirements are met. See below for details!
Level 0: Visitors
New user accounts, which are the most likely to be spammers, bots, etc, are fairly restricted in controls as they get acquainted with our community and earn all of our trust. And while most of you probably don’t need it… this also helps reduce the number of overwhelming options to ease people into it.
Level 0 Users Cannot:
Trust Level 1: Apprentice
Once users spend just a little amount of time exploring the community and proving they are actually interested human beings, they’ll be granted basic access.
Level 1 Granted By:
Level 1 Users Can:
Trust Level 2: Novice
Members keep coming back and have participated long enough in the community to earn complete citizenship.
Level 2 Granted By:
Level 2 Users Can:
Trust Level 3: Adept
Regulars are the heart of this community - the active readers and reliable contributors helping to share, teach and inspire the other VFX Artists and shape our industry’s future. Because this is a community meant for and run by all, we’ve decided to begin opening up moderation controls to all users with this level of trust.
Trust Level 3 must be Maintained
Unlike the other trust levels, you can lose trust level 3 status automatically by becoming an idle member. If you dip below the requirements listed below, you’ll automatically drop back to a Member until you return to meet the requirements again. This helps keep the community moderators fresh.
Level 3 Regulars Can:
Level 3 Granted By:
Because we want to filter only the most active members, there is a time restriction for these goals. Within the last 100 Days, the user:
Trust Level 4: Mentor
Leaders are exactly that - the role models, educators and mentors of this community. These are the fully empowered members, chosen by the community for the efforts to help sponsor growth, sharing and inspiration across our industry.
Level 4 Mentor Can:
Level 4 Granted By:
Manual promotion only - as agreed upon by the community. If you’re interested in becoming a Mentor, or have any issues with currently endowed Mentors, please send me a PM.
Staff Roles
Like all good machines, sometimes you just need people to get in and do the dirty work.
Moderators
Moderators are given full control of the content within the community, but don’t have ultimate control over the internals and back-end (i.e. they can’t break everything). There are still a few bugs around moderator control of groups and group security, but we’ll hopefully get those ironed out.
Admin
The Admin has full access to the API and internals of this community.
