What’s with the limitation on being able to post links? Someone told me that we can’t link anything without a certain number of posts or threads created?
Correct, see: The Ultimate Forum Guide (Codes, Trust Levels, FAQ) - General Discussion - Overwatch Forums
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I’m really not sure how I feel about this. Also 20000 posts seems like an absurd number to go for.
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20,000 post just for links?
EZ, lets play that one word story game, but to make things interesting, we must end all comments to the story with “There is a protoss sni-”
This will really hamper recruitment efforts for a lot of Starcraft clans. I can’t post my discord server without checking the forums almost every other day for 100 days? that is pretty insane
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You can post the discord link if you just leave off the http, aka discord.gg/Zf2Rxs
It took me about 6 years of posting to collect over 20,000 posts in the old forum. No way I am going to bother reaching that post count again just to post links. That is an idiotic rule, plain and simple.
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Yeah I’ve just been doing the https:// as a seperate line and its been working… just would be nice not to have to do that.
I looked into TheSkunk’s link and it is 20,000 posts read to post links rather than 20,000 posts, which is a lot more reasonable. Like right now I have read ten times more posts than made posts so it is an achievable goal in the near future at least.
Hey all,
There’s a new post up that explains the new forum features:
Until you can post limited hyperlinks at TL2 and any hyperlink at TL3, you can post un-hyperlinked links by enclosing it in the “Prefomatted Text” markdown (the </> button on the toolbar).
Example:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/sc2/t/post-thread-count-and-links
It’s not clickable, but at least you don’t have to break the URL up.
So basically if I had a replay (or a bunch of replays) that I wanted to link, Id have to do that? Seems a little short sighted but sure, I guess.
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Also, how would I do that on my phone? And would I have to do that for each individual link (if I wanted to have a bunch of replays, for instance)?
Right. It ends up being similar to the old forums: can post links, just unclickable. The new feature of clickable hyperlinks comes after gaining trust levels.
On a phone, there’s the same buttons above the reply field so you should be able to highlight the text as usual and tap the Preformatter Text button. As for multiple links/lines it behaves a little different, but still works. It essentially puts them all in a code block, but the result is the same: unaltered urls that can copied and pasted as is.
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RIP Skunks MVP status 
Either there’s some sort of bug or simply an incorrect statement. I’ve linked to battle.net and youtube as a test, and others in the other forums post hyperlinks as well. I think Blizzard lowered the scale somewhere for our sakes. Maybe the levelage comes from other forum usage, but I cannot prove that. It seems odd / buggy though that I cannot now post links in this thread when I just did earlier today. Maybe there’s a limit but here’s proof I can do it already.
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/sc2/t/no-gms-willl-help-ignored-tickets/237/8?u=lykos-1124
Even odder that battle.net linked up there, but when I selected text and used ctrl + K to embed a link in text later on in the editing of this post, it blocked that, saying I cannot post links. There’s certainly some inconsistencies to sort out.