A permission model that grows with your members
Jetonomy resolves what a member can do through three layers that stack on top of each other: WordPress capabilities, the role a member holds inside a given space, and their trust level. The result is a single answer to one question, “can this person do this here?”, without you wiring permissions by hand for every member.
Trust levels are the engine that makes it self-running. There are six, numbered 0 to 5. Everyone starts at 0. Levels 1 through 3 are earned automatically: when a member crosses the activity requirements you set, like a number of posts, days active, and replies received, a scheduled job promotes them. Levels 4 and 5 are reserved for your leaders and moderators, granted by hand from the WordPress Users screen. If a member’s standing drops, the same job moves them back down, so the system stays honest.
Every level unlocks the next ability
Higher trust is not just a label. Each level expands what a member can do without a moderator in the loop. A newcomer can post and flag. The next level up can upload images and edit their own posts. Higher still, members can skip the friction that catches spammers and start their own spaces. At the top, members effectively act as community staff, moderating content and managing other members. You decide where each ability sits by tuning the thresholds in the settings, so promotion can be fast and welcoming or a genuine achievement.
This is the difference between hand-picking moderators and letting a community self-select. Members who consistently contribute quality earn their way up. You only step in for the edge cases: elevating a known expert early, or banning a bad actor.
One queue for everything that needs review
When content does need a human, it lands in one place. The moderation queue has tabs for pending posts, pending replies, member flags, and banned users, each with a live count so nothing sits unnoticed. Pending items are ordered oldest first. Approve publishes, spam trashes and trains your spam filter, and trash removes without the spam mark. On flags, you confirm or dismiss in one click.
The queue works on the front end and in wp-admin, and it respects scope. A moderator for your Support space sees only Support items, not the entire site. That is what lets moderation keep up when you are taking hundreds of posts a day: the right people see the right queue, and most of the work never needs you at all.