# Trusted users of this forum: engagement with Discourse Meta

**URL:** <https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/trusted-users-of-this-forum-engagement-with-discourse-meta/130>\
**Category:** Forum feedback\
**Created:** [May 4, 2017, 5:36am UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/trusted-users-of-this-forum-engagement-with-discourse-meta/130 "2017-05-04T05:36:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![grahamperrin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/grahamperrin/32/62_2.png) [@grahamperrin](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/grahamperrin)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 5:36am UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/trusted-users-of-this-forum-engagement-with-discourse-meta/130/1 "2017-05-04T05:36:49Z")

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## Discourse Meta

### A shortlist

Discourse Meta profiles of people who have gained the highest level of trust in the Open&nbsp;Source&nbsp;Design&nbsp;forum:

1. [Belen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/belenbarrospena/summary)
2. [Blake Erickson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/oblakeerickson/summary) – Discourse Staff
3. [Erlend Sogge Heggen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh/summary) – Discourse Team
4. [Jan-Christoph Borchardt](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jancborchardt/summary)
5. [Richard Littauer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/richardlitt/summary)
6. [Sean](https://meta.discourse.org/u/studiospring/summary)
7. [Simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simonv3/summary)
8. [Victoria Bondarchuk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/victoria-bondarchuk/summary)

#### Retired

1. [Graham Perrin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/grahamperrin/summary) ☑

## Orientation

For newcomers, who may be unfamiliar with ‘Discourse’:

- Discourse Meta is the best place [to discuss the platform that is used for this forum](https://meta.discourse.org/about)
- [What do user trust levels do?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-do-user-trust-levels-do/4924?u=grahamperrin) – from the co-founder of Discourse
- for your forum, [https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/badges](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/badges) – at the foot, the number of users at each of the four levels.

You have [nineteen named people at the highest trust level](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/badges/4/leader). Eight of the leaders _can_ be found at Discourse Meta:

1. Belen ☑
2. Bernard Tyers – @ei8fdb
3. Blake Erickson ☑
4. Brennan Novak – `@bnvk`
5. Charlie – @Incabell
6. Elio Qoshi – @elioqoshi
7. Erlend Sogge Heggen ☑
8. evalica – @evalica
9. Felix A. Epp – @eppfel
10. Gilli – @gilli
11. Heiko Tietze – @htietze
12. Jan-Christoph Borchardt ☑
13. jdittrich – @jdittrich
14. Richard Littauer ☑
15. Roy – @Roy
16. Sean ☑
17. Simon ☑
18. Victoria Bondarchuk ☑
19. Xaviju – @Xaviju

To the ~~eleven~~ ten people addressed above, who can _not_ be found:

- if you have a Discourse Meta presence – and if would like your ID there to be linked from **the&nbsp;shortlist** above – please reply below.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![RichardLitt](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/richardlitt/32/53_2.png) [@RichardLitt](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/RichardLitt)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 12:17pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/trusted-users-of-this-forum-engagement-with-discourse-meta/130/2 "2017-05-04T12:17:20Z")

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I set one up. I’m not entirely sure what my involvement on meta.discourse will be, but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to join.

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**Author:** ![simonv3](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/simonv3/32/15_2.png) [@simonv3](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/simonv3)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 2:45pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/trusted-users-of-this-forum-engagement-with-discourse-meta/130/3 "2017-05-04T14:45:58Z")

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Hey @grahamperrin, can you clarify why these people should set up a discourse meta account? Not everyone needs to be involved in reporting bugs to Discourse, or talking about the platform there.

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**Author:** ![grahamperrin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/grahamperrin/32/62_2.png) [@grahamperrin](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/grahamperrin)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 2:48pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/trusted-users-of-this-forum-engagement-with-discourse-meta/130/4 "2017-05-04T14:48:43Z")

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Thanks for asking.

It’s not about bugs, that’s simply my title (Bug Reporter) at Discourse Meta.