I understand the need to have requirements for this kind of thing so that you don’t have just anybody posting whatever they want. But the current system just seems so unnecessarily intensive (and impossible to track your progress).
All I want is the ability to post images for my guild advertisement thread. In order to do that, I have to just completely brainrot on here every day indefinitely forever and ever. If I take a little break, I’m bumped back down and have to grind my way back up again with no clear indication of what I need to do.
I see you participating on the forums a lot tbh… which there’s nothing wrong with that, more power to you if you enjoy it! But I generally don’t really enjoy the forums most of the time, and I would like to not have to be as active as you are just for something as simple as image privileges in my own thread.
I’m usually content just being a quiet reader/occasional participant, and I’d like to be able to gradually/visibly build up and retain trust levels here rather than feel obligated to maintain active participation every day, blindly hoping that eventually at some point I’ll get tipped over the edge into level 3. It just doesn’t seem like it’s that necessary for them to gatekeep the levels quite as much as they do.
I can’t speak for other guild types, but I know it’s still relatively common practice for RP guilds.
Anyone and everyone can embed a graphic YouTube video of a woman giving birth but you have to visit 50 days to put a picture of your character’s new transmog up. It makes no sense.
I agree with the OP that the TL3 requirement is a bit harsh (it should not be so easy to drop to TL2 if you go on a 2-week vacation w/family), but Trust Levels and what privileges they come with are explained pretty clearly in the first post of the “new forum guide” pinned to top of General Discussion, so it should be easy to “makes sense” of how it works.
TRUST LEVEL 1
Get to trust level 1 by…
Entering at least 5 topics
Reading at least 30 posts
Spend a total of 10 minutes reading posts
Users at trust level 1 can…
Post unlimited topics and replies
Edit wiki posts (more on Wiki Posts Below)
Flag posts
Create links and video embeds to trusted websites like Blizzard websites, YouTube, or Twitch
TRUST LEVEL 2
Get to trust level 2 by…
Visiting at least 15 days, not sequentially
Casting at least 1 like
Receiving at least 1 like
Replying to at least 3 different topics
Entering at least 20 topics
Reading at least 100 posts
Spend a total of 60 minutes reading posts
Users at trust level 2 can…
Have an increased “like” count.
TRUST LEVEL 3
Get to trust level 3 by…
Must have visited at least 50% of last 100 days
Must have replied to at least 10 different topics
Of topics created in the last 100 days, must have viewed 500 topics
Of posts created in the last 100 days, must have read 20,000 posts (both starting posts and replies)
Must have received 20 likes, and given 30 likes.
Must not have received more than 5 spam or offensive flags (with unique posts and unique users for each, confirmed by a moderator)
Must not have been suspended (including forum suspensions or in-game account actions of any Blizzard game)
Trust Level 3 users can
Create Wiki Posts (more on that below)
Post animated gifs, images, compatible video embeds, and links to any website
The TL3 system is so obtuse, so difficult to attain, so difficult to maintain, and the slightest thing that sets a mod off, and it’s gone for at least six months.
This is true, but there’s no way of tracking your own progress on this site, which is a bummer. If I need to visit 50% of the last 100 days, for instance, I’d like something on my profile that tells me “you’re at 37%” or something. Or “You’re currently at 15,670/20,000 recent posts read” etc etc. I do think the requirements are quite harsh, and I’d like to see them reduced to something more reasonable/maintainable… but if we’re going to have harsh requirements, the least they can do is show me my progress, I think.
The sticky post about the Trust Level definitions and how to achieve them still seems accurate, unless you have a different source that says those too are out of date? The forum software is Discourse, not something Blizz develops, just something they use.
The Trust Level requirements posted in that sticky seem to be identical to what’s on the Discourse Site for “Understanding Trust Levels.”
