No when I asked my doubts to @Myrtle she (sorry if I am wrong about your gender) told me to make a topic here and even if my first suggestion is unique to me the second one is not
I will bring up your concerns to the other moderators. Until then I do not want to go changing old meta posts since I can’t verify if Basic users can’t do what the meta thread says they can do since I have moderator status.
Moderators are unable to see the actual settings given to each trust level, so we’re waiting on staff to get back to us. If there are any differences between the settings and what is said in the thread, then we will update the thread, but if there aren’t any differences, then the thread will remain as is. This is because there are a number of bugs in the forum’s software that can mess with permissions and it would be extremely difficult for us to identify and verify all of these bugs, especially if they don’t happen consistently.
In the meantime, please be patient. We will respond to this only after we have an answer.