That is not part of the requirement for TL3. I try to avoid flagging people. Posts that seriously cross the line, the forum community normally takes care of it. For me at least, I see posts where it seems clear what the likely outcome will be.
I am not sure what happens either. At least the initial description said that the flags had to be validated by a forum moderator.
According to the posted requirements early on, this should lead to the revocation of TL3. This rule applies to those who meet the TL3 through requirements and may not apply if manually awarded TL3.
I had one post grayed out like you. The system notification stated that if the forum moderator deemed that the post was acceptable, it would be made visible and all flags removed. A few hours later the post in question was made visible. I wonder if that is why you lost TL3.
I see TL3 as you have to live on the forums along with liking a whole lot of post. Jumping through a hole lot of hoops that I say are not worth it. I say it is time for Blizz to drop TL3 and give the same privileges to TL2 and keep people on TL2 unless they break the forum rules.
To me it is still more than enough to be requiring me to almost live on the forums. I won’t be doing that, now if they were to eliminate TL3 and make TL2 the new TL3 then that is something that I can live with.
We got baited bei by the Discourse guide in every D3-board offering some kewl features to us. But those who really would profit of these features aren’t allowed to use them.
I lost mine too a little while ago. Read and liked a ton of posts over the next couple weeks and it came back.
I really wish they were more transparent about the requirements. Maybe even have a tracker in your profile so you can see how far away you are from meeting the requirements. That’ll never happen, but it would be nice, and would solve a lot of user confusion.
This whole forum setup really needs to be redone. I have moderated many forums over the years. Some with a couple hundred members to over 4 million members and I can say that his is the worst setup I have ever seen. There is a reason other forums did away with the like button or made them pointless.
Agree … and hurts those who contribute and who may have taken a break between seasons. There is no reason to remove TL3 once you’ve earned it and forces you to be active 24/7 … if you have created helpful discussion content in the past (that hasn’t been deleted) and achieved TL3, then there is no reason to require re-enabling it through random likes and what not.
Agreed. Achievements should never be removed once earned. This breeds bad blood and discourse between users and the mods and MVP (is there even more then one?)
As for the reason for making people come back every day is to make things “seem” more popular then they are. Its a normal tactic among smaller forums. Its the same reason they dont really do a lot about bots. They make it “seem” like more people are playing and having fun.
Rest assured, I hold no animosity what-so-ever to people with green text. They have no control over who does / does not have TL3. This is entirely about how Blizzard have implemented the trust system and the fact that they won’t actually confirm what the criteria are to obtain / maintain the different levels.
Sometimes you got to wonder, you caught on right away that it wasn’t a serious Post.
There are a couple of Forum Warriors or Trolls or whatever they may be, have got their noses so high in those tight dark areas, you would think they must have brain damage from the lack of oxygen!
I would of thought they would of “got it” when I mentioned I was a T4 Wannabe, for their information there is no such Trust Level! Not to mention there isn’t no such a thing as a thumbs up button anymore, I guess they never noticed.
Oh dont just blame Blizzard. I have a feeling alot of this is coming from the other side as well. I never said you did. Just that it normally does. We would never know as the ones that get really fed up dont post in the forums they just leave.
Of course they wont. Its called the grey area. Things are left like that for many reasons. The major one being that not everyone sees everything the same way. So it leaves things open.
Lets hope they take a better path with the D4 forums.
All the forums for all Blizzard games and topics use the same software. That was one of the big reasons to convert it all to modern code that was maintainable. The old code was built in house and was…challenging. I will put it that way.
I do hope that as time goes on though that Blizzard will continue to work with the Discourse makers to add, or remove, features.
I am still waiting on Ignore, for example. Discourse does have the ability to do it, but Blizz has not implemented it. It requires the Ignore feature to be assigned to the groups and it is not a default feature. Not sure when, or if, Blizz will roll that out to the forums.
If you want Trust level trackers, you might want to see what the official Discourse boards have to say about it. Do they often get asked for it? Will they build it? I agree it would be nice, although Blizz seems to think that it would feel like artificially pushing people to be here if they could see the stats. I have such mixed feelings about that. I prefer transparency.
As opposed to being in the dark, thus scrambling to maintain it by religiously doing all of the things constantly? One would think that with transparency, players would at least have a heads up on when to do their “forum chores” and spend the rest of their now free time…playing the game.
Unfortunately transparency isn’t exactly Blizzard’s forté lately (note that this is different than their increased communications here - that’s more informational than to be transparent).
Imagine they add daily quests in their games going against that rule?
An easy fix for the people that want to link like us and don’t want to browse daily hundreds of posts to get/maintain TL3 would be to allow linking for people who received more than 200 likes from different posters for example.
Since they use apparently the 100 day rolling averages for meeting requirements, it might be nice if they provided these statistics as a separate category.
Fortunately for you, you were manually awarded TL3 based on your contributions to the forum. For those of us who earn TL3 through meeting Blizzards posted requirements, I wonder if we maintain it for a set of time (e.g. a year) if they would also manually award it.
Probably not. The people who were manually given T3 were those already posting guides and helping players for a long time prior to the new forums. If someone were doing that for a year +, then maybe. Just maintaining T3 alone would not be reason to manually grant it. Right now, I think there are 8 people who have been manually added, not including me or any of the other Tech/Customer support MVPs. All were added back in July 2019 when the new forums rolled out.
What I really wish they would do is just white list the Blizzard site so we can link posts, game guide, etc without having T3. We had that on the old forums and it was enough for most folks.
Imo, once a person has attained trust level 3; they shouldn’t lose it due to be being inactive or being unable to maintain whatever requirements they have placed for it.
