Why I am not allowed to post links?

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“Sorry, you can’t include links in your posts.”

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Something about trust levels or whatever. I think it’s asinine, personally, but that’s how links are in this forum now.

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You need to raise your trust level. I think trust level 2 gains access to linking on trusted sites like Battle.Net, YouTube or Twitch, while trust level 3 allows you to link anywhere.

However, as a workaround, if you’re at trust level 1 you can use code lines to post links without it breaking up. See previous paragraph for an example.

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Ok thank you.

I guess its just too complicated for me

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https://imgur.com/a/AOtCIAd

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Hey I made it

XD nice

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How do you know what your current trust level is?

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Yap, that’s it ^^
Just a side note, according to stickied post by WyomingMist, we won’t be to be able to attain Trust level 2 for 2 more weeks as new forum was rolled out yesterday. One of conditions is visiting forum for 15 days (not necessarily in a row).

As for seeing trust level, there is a method which involves checking a JSON file you receive or something like that, but I cannot find the relevant post with that info. I know I saw it somewhere yesterday, though.

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Thanks just curious. I guess I could find out by not being able to do things. And I am increasing my trust level by asking.

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Go to your activity page by clicking your avatar in the top right and then your name. The URL will look like this:
https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/u/name-realm/activity
simply change /activity to .json.

There search for trust-level.

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Go to your forum profile page (not game profile page) and add .json to the URL.

For example:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/sc2/u/TheJanitor-1385.json

In the page that loads, text search for trust_level_ and the highest number you see is your TL.

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Here, you can read this.

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How in the world could you lose so much? Nvm, I see you made a separate thread about this

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For me, I see both trust_level_0 and trust_level_1

Showing both and I doubt I have reached level 1.

What’s up with that?

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You need to read 20,000 posts in order to be able to post links.

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I’ve seen that too with mine.

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That’s normally how that .json page looks. It will list all the TLs you have, so the highest one is your current level. For example, mine will display all four: 0, 1, 2 and 3.

As for reaching TL1, it’s quite easy.

… which you both have cleared by a mile!

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Not quite.
My old SC2 post history

It’s cool though. Trust should be earned. It’s a brand new day, everyone. Enjoy the new forums! I almost wish I could post all the cool things I’ve found about them such as being able to site hop around with a current post your editing, HTML coding, and how you can click the date info on the scrolly bar to jump. If I clicked May 31, I’d scroll to the top of this thread, same as 4h ago.

Neat trick found! I accidently deleted this post, but there’s an undo button!

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So what is the metric for being allowed to post links?

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As an I.T. guy, I don’t understand all the json stuff and code. I just know I’ve been on here just 2 days and can post hyperlinks. I sort of feel there’s bleed over from the other forums, but the .json code seems to suggest it’s just referencing level for this game forum, as I did a cross check with my HOTS .json data. it’s different.

It would be nice if they showed us metrics on where we’re at level wise instead of hiding it. Stay a while and read and you’ll catch up.

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