Ranks, Degrees & Authority

New and early-path members learning the Sanctuary, building identity, and making first connections.

Low mechanical influence; focused on onboarding, learning, and basic participation.

Members who are beginning to participate with intention and return to shared spaces consistently.

Growing trust; more activity history and early contribution signals.

Active contributors who help shape community knowledge, discussion, resources, and gathering life.

Recognized creative and practical participation across realms.

Trusted members with deeper participation, stronger publishing trust, and visible contribution history.

High enough trust for some direct-publish thresholds where enabled.

Highly trusted contributors whose judgment and memory help stabilize community culture.

Strong community influence through proven consistency and contribution depth.

Longtime trusted stewards. Elders are not staff, but may softly endorse queued items in selected realms.

Soft stewardship influence: endorsement/concern power in BoS, Gazette, Forums, Chat, Links, and Media.

Entry staff rank assigned to specific teams or realms for triage, safety, and routine moderation.

Can review and act inside assigned team limits; in Chat can warn, hide, mute, and kick, but not ban.

Realm or team lead rank with broader authority inside assigned teams.

Can lead assigned realms, handle stronger moderation, and manage more sensitive queue outcomes.

Domain-level staff rank that may operate across multiple teams and higher administrative surfaces.

Can coordinate multiple teams/domains, use global announcements, and handle higher-level staff actions.

Founder-level rank with all-access system authority and no team requirement.

Full platform authority, override capacity, and founder-level operational control.