Appreciate you asking anyway, thanks MissCheetah 
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Of course things are subject to change, but there is now a TL3 with 218 threads viewed and 3.34K posts read.
The ānewā forum is past 200k posts now.
What?! I think I have more than that! Whereās my trust? I only type unintelligent things sometimesā¦should be a ātry hardā level of trust here 
Whatās written next to Trust level in userās profile when you are TL3?
Mine states member now at TL2.
I made 10 likes, weāll see if TL changes when tomorrow cron job hits.
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TL3 = Regular
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Iām back to regularā¦yayā¦
Personally, I like the revised requirements. Previously, TL3 was about posting in an ethical manner (the requirements about flags and no game/forum suspensions) plus the other requirements including a rather high number of posts read. Now, the new requirements are much more manageable in relation to posts read and TL3 relates more to obeying the code of conduct and not necessarily reading volumes of posts.
Yeah, nothing says trustworthy like randomly liking posts just to maintain an arbitrary number of likes given in a rolling 100 day period to obtain / maintain TL3.
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If I am in the right ballpark on the requirements, liking 30 posts among 3,000 read (1%) over a 100 day rolling average is not a high bar.
The point is, giving / receiving likes isnāt an indication of trustworthiness, regardless of how low the bar is set. Everything, with the exception of not having had a forum holiday due to being a naughty person, is a measurement of participation, not trustworthiness.
āTrust levelā is not ideal nomenclature. I think that the idea is to capture behavior and recent participation. The advantages of being TL3 are rather modest.
Yep. The Trust levels are multifaceted.
- Prevent people from spamming the forums and self bumping threads (basic restrictions)
- Prevent people from linking to inappropriate or harmful content.
- Prevent people from posting inappropriate images
- Encourage activity/engagement
- Provide a reward of sorts for following the rules AND staying engaged
- Prevent inactive accounts that are TL3 from being abused by spammers/hackers when the player is absent. The requirement for recent activity helps prevent zombie account spam/abuse.
The concept of course is that a more active forum gets more eyeballs and engagement between players (as long as it is reasonably positive), encourages them to come back and participate more. The goal is to have an active community that discusses the game.
Of course, they also want to only give the ārewardsā to people who hopefully wonāt abuse them.
If this were just about following the rules they would not have the engagement requirements.
Glad to hear that. 
I am back to being a Regular kind of guy again too, yahoo! 
, donāt ask me how I did it but I did step up my Liken and Flag-gen in the last couple of weeks! 
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More fibre should help keep us all Regular.
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The requirement is still 30 likes. I am TL3 now.
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Whatever the requirements are, they are truly ridiculous. Itās likeā¦ you literally have to farm this thing, as if itās own separate video gameā¦
I mean, I canāt even post a link to a freaking Blizzard site or youtubeā¦
I mean, what does the whole ātrust levelā or whatever even achieve?
Those who wanna criticize will criticize regardless.
The fans (short for fanatics) will like something no matter what.
Itās not going to prevent trolling, as trolling does not require trust level.
If Blizzard wanna delete something, theyāll delete it regardless of the trust level of the userā¦
Have there been major incidents caused by some poster for those restrictions to be put in place? Or some strange regulations?!
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Yes. There is a very good reason clickable links and images are restricted.
Well, obviously, there would be. If you can do it, people are gonna do it. Look at some of the free forum sites; spam bots post all day.
I remember a certain ascii piece of art that ended up on the D3 Wizard forums after a particularly bad patch run. That Wizard poster got banned, but he is alive in our hearts.
At Trust Level 2, you can provide clickable links to Blizzard sites. For exampleā¦
My US Career Page
At Trust Level 2, whilst you cannot provide a link to a YouTube video, you can however embed the video into the thread. Of course, that makes zero sense, in that apparently itās okay to literally see the video play in the thread, but not take you off-site to view it. For exampleā¦
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Thereās a reason for that, I think. Iām not up on the tech, but embedding a video is safer than going directly to a site, because that site could be malicious. I donāt think the exposure level is the same.