New forum syntax guide & details about Trust levels

Planar-11507 · January 30, 2019, 1:15am

Admins can change these thresholds by searching for TL3 in site settings.

this part could be it?

SamiSha-21964 · January 30, 2019, 4:05am

Probably but this doesn’t seem to apply to what other users said when they got TL3 where rhey had lesser stats than 20k or 500 for posts or topics.

Planar-11507 · January 30, 2019, 4:08am

Actually, looking at it again… Those are probably the highest limit that an Admin can set?

So if a site generates 1000K posts in 100 days. 25% of that would be 25K+. Except it gets cut down to just 20K, as that is the max.

Where the 500 topics visited and 20K posts read was probably found to be the upper limit of reasonableness?

SamiSha-21964 · January 30, 2019, 4:13am

Probably, this forum barely scratched 100k posts, if memory serves right it reached about 60k~ posts in the first 100 days of the forums, so in reality it takes about 15k posts minimum to read instead of the 20k cap.

SamiSha-21964 · January 30, 2019, 4:33am

Yes, that’s correct, the OW forums are so active they probably reach 20k posts every 2 - 5 days depending on the thread, the 25% rule is actually ridiculous there so it caps on 20k, on smaller communities it would make more sense to have it being 25% instead of “pass” 20k posts read.

Could they change the %? Yes, but I think most of the requirements are still pretty similar with the default rules from experience and other’s mentions.

Yes for very big forums, not really for smaller ones.

Kelsier-1595 · January 30, 2019, 2:12pm

Hey so can you really just scroll through mega threads to count as reading? Thought you had to look at a post for like 2 seconds

SamiSha-21964 · January 30, 2019, 2:18pm

Yes, pretty much, they did this with the Mercy mega threads that passed about 20k posts~ on the Overwatch forums lol.

Kelsier-1595 · January 30, 2019, 2:21pm

Only 7k away from 20k. Do you have to have a certain number of posts created?

Morogoth-1321 · January 31, 2019, 7:04pm

SamiSha:

Decided to create the correct HTML format for a table because it’s not clearly written how in the syntax guide:
<table> 

<tr>
<th>Header</th> 
<th>it's</th> 
<th>in the</th>
<th>middle</th>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>1</td> 
<td>2</td> 
<td>3</td>
<td>4</td> 
</tr>

<add the line of code below many times to add more rows.>

<tr>
<td>cell</td> 
<td>cell</td> 
<td>cell</td>
<td>cell</td>
</tr>

</table>
Header it’s in the middle

1 2 3 4

cell cell cell cell

that is a good outline and i was using it that same kind of posting for a while too. only it has the annoying issues of not allowing your easy formatting so you have to do everything through tags. also you have to type so much stuff copy and paste is definitely your friend with that.

actually what i found to work best? is this…

CELL1	CELL2	CELL3
1	2	3
A	B	C

|CELL1|CELL2|CELL3|
| :---: | :---: | :---: |
|1|2|3|
|A|B|C|

this is a header block. it takes what is in the “CELL1-3” blocks and creates the line separator for the header. also note the : in the second line. these are alignment notations. :--- left, :---: center, ---: right

|CELL1|CELL2|CELL3|
| :---: | :---: | :---: |

these are just normal data cells which are aligned onto each of the header columns.

|1|2|3|
|A|B|C|

examples:

CELL1	CELL2	CELL3
	Numbers
1	2	3
4	5	6
	Letters
A	B	C
D	E	F

|CELL1|CELL2|CELL3|
| :---: | :---: | :---: |
||**Numbers**||
|1|2|3|
|_4_|_5_|_6_|
||**Letters**||
|A|B|C|
|_D_|_E_|_F_|

vs

CELL1	CELL2	CELL3
	Numbers
1	2	3
_4_	_5_	_6_
	Letters
A	B	C
D	E	F

<table>
<th>CELL1</th><th>CELL2</th><th>CELL3</th>
<tr><td></td><td>**Numbers**</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td><div align="center">1</td><td><div align="center">2</td><td><div align="center">3</td></tr></div></div></div>
<tr><td><div align="center">_4_</td><td><div align="center">_5_</td><td><div align="center">_6_</td></tr></div></div></div>

<tr><td></td><td><div align="center"><strong>Letters</strong></td><td></td></tr></div>
<tr><td><div align="center">A</td><td><div align="center">B</td><td><div align="center">C</td></tr></div></div></div>
<tr><td><i><div align="center">D</i></td><td><i><div align="center">E</i></td><td><i><div align="center">F</td></i></tr></div></div></div>
</table>

this is just showing that you “can” do the same things…but its extremely annoying to do it. you have to type out all the tags everywhere. since your little formatting buttons will not help you in this case.

edit:
changed table examples to include centering the text inside the cells. i believe it looks nicer that way in the tables and it only adds a few colons to the one table. for the tag based table it added a bunch of extra work though

Planar-11507 · February 7, 2019, 6:48am

New Derp in things here… If you are quoted by someone with your portrait shown… You cannot link/display that portrait without Trust level 3…

facepalm

(I mean, I get it… But it is pretty silly…)

Kelsier-1595 · February 7, 2019, 5:52pm

Hey so what’s the requirement for level 3? 20k read posts or 15k? I’ve heard both

SamiSha-21964 · February 7, 2019, 5:55pm

Either read 25% of all things created in the last 100 days or reach 20k to get that requirement check marked.

Kelsier-1595 · February 7, 2019, 5:57pm

Hmm yeah I’m not qualified yet. I’m pretty sure it’s just posts read at this point

Alias-2471 · February 8, 2019, 6:23pm

It usualy is. And its because its the most unreasonable requirement. If you truly are reading every single post for 10 seconds. It requires 200k seconds to read all of the 20k posts you need. Which is enough for 55hours of reading time.

But i guess thats also why they set the limit, there are plenty of posts of 1 line that barely add anything to conversations, so maybe only 10% of the posts is actualy valuable and takes up more time (yes, there are also valuable ones that you can read in 10 seconds, but thats not realy a problem on this requirement).

But i think its bad that certain posts who can easily take several minutes of reading only count as 1. Is there realy no way to detect people reading such long post?

One of the things i would recommend to do to get to level 3, is to make sure you are reading 100 posts every time you are online. Click open the 10 post threads even if they arent interesting (like the ‘i want a surrender button’ threads) and just quickly scroll through them. It will take a while to reach the requirement. But eventualy you reach it.

SamiSha-21964 · February 8, 2019, 6:28pm

Nope, but there’s a way to see if you read that post or not, near the date of each comment there’s a blue dot that appears which implies that this is a post you didn’t read, it will fade after 2 seconds implying that you actually read that, and count as a post that has been read.

Alias-2471 · February 8, 2019, 6:30pm

It triggers on much less than 2 seconds already though. Its just the fade that brings the appearance of it taking 2 seconds.

(and also, i think i just reached level 3 :O)

SamiSha-21964 · February 8, 2019, 6:32pm

Congratulations, this is in your .json file for you profile.

Alias-2471 · February 8, 2019, 6:32pm

I already checked it on my profile after i typed that, i noticed it on the wrench icon which stated a wiki option.

SamiSha-21964 · February 8, 2019, 6:37pm

Which makes it that anyone can edit your comment, don’t use it to much, some people are just, too drunk when they figure it out.

Alias-2471 · February 8, 2019, 6:41pm

Its more likely that im not going to use it at all. I think the only feature i would use would be to post a screenshot and thats about it.

Its not like im able to make maps in this game, and write information on how to do some stuff in the level designer. And even in then, in tf2 most of those guides arent even a wiki anyway. Most of the time a simple forum post can do more than enough