Can you lose Trust Level 3 without Blizzard notifying you?

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That’s 200 posts per day. If people were actually reading them instead of scrolling by, that would be waaaayyy too many, imo.

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So, I am now apparently back to Trust level 3.

So it was definitely the Post read count.

I guess the tests were successful, but I feel a bit bad about the fact my “read” count isn’t actually real in this case, or arrived at organically by actually reading the posts. If Blizzard had provided some way to know and see what was going on and what was missing, it would have been easier to keep up with or at least work towards.

Seems like just blowing a bunch of time uselessly scrolling through the forums to up your count without actually reading the posts is kind of counter productive.

Hopefully my normal forum activity will just keep it active in the future.

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That’s pretty much why I think the “read count” shouldn’t even be a thing. It doesn’t actually mean anything if folks can just scroll on through. I do think that if you just glance through the forums most days and read what interests you, you should be able to maintain your trust lvl status.

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Go get 20k more before your time is over D:

Unless you spend some time tracking your stats, there is not a concrete way to know what you were truly missing. If I have to guess, after checking your stats I think the problem was here:

This is the 3rd “cycle” of thrust levels (every 50 days), during cycle 1 and 2 you viewed a lot of threads, but the low amount of viewed topics you have makes me think you missed the 3rd cycle mark.

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I was in the first group to gain TL3, but lost it a couple of months ago due to being ill and not being able to log into the forums. I miss the lounge and the people in it… but still being too ill to remain on the forums as often as I did (and haven’t been able to play due to illness either) sucks.

I think I lost mine for a combination of days on the forum out of 100 and post read count.

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I think that’s unlikely.

In the past 24 hours I have probably viewed maybe 20 more topics. But I added about 18k posts to my read count, with about 13k coming in the past 2 hours. And shortly after adding 13k posts to my read count from that test I did, Trust level 3 almost immediately came back.

Signs point to it being the read count.

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Yea… you don’t get post count if you use page down, space bar, etc. You have to manually scroll past every single post.

And yes, as you found out, it’s MUCH easier to view on phone compared to your computer. (As you said, you can view 10,000 posts in the time it takes you to view 2,000 on your computer)

But I refuse to login on my phone. I can’t secure my phone. As such, computer users are at a significant disadvantage when it comes to maintaining TL3 to the point I’ve had to resort to using the autoscroll feature on my mouse before I go to bed and letting my browser crash.

Add on what I said at the start of this post - that if you use space bar, page down, etc. to scroll through threads, and it doesn’t even register a good chunk of the posts you view, and it makes it even worse.

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It certainly removed any interest I may have had in the system. I regularly read, but I’m not going to pretend to read to qualify as a trusted community member. I mean… that would indicate the opposite after all.

I hope they gain control over this canned package they were sold, and soon. :confused:

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This is what’s so ridiculous about the trust levels. It has little to do with how interesting/constructive/well thought out a post is.

You can post utterly useless drivel all over the forums, but as long as you can get enough people to like it - or have a few friends who grant likes in a symbiotic fashion - boom, you can post links, gifs, and even more utterly useless drivel all over the forums.

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Just in the interest of science, I have heard that a simple cell phone standing on it’s side is heavy enough to hold down the down arrow on a standard keyboard. Just sayin’ .

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I lost my level 3 clearance for being a moron a while back.

It was fun while it lasted. :joy:

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Well, try not to worry about it. Hopefully you will see those people around GD as well and there is always the lounge thread/silly threads to just hang out in.

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lvl 3 isn’t needed though either - I personally would like an actually number of posts made requirement in there because someone can post once and provided they get enough likes for that post they are eligible for lvl 3 and there is no way that is a guarantee that person knows the rules or can follow them with that number of posts

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You can’t just post once and be eligible for TL3.

As mentioned below, the required minimum post counts are 10.

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oh so 10 times, that makes all the difference.

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You said you “personally would like an actually number of posts made requirement in there”.

There is.
Whether or not you like the fact or think that 10 posts are enough or not.

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10 posts might as well be one - I don’t consider that a serious requirement but my bad.

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That didn’t even make sense, but whatever floats your boat.

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Argumentative aren’t you ? That sentence means 10 posts are basically no different than a requirement for one. Not proof of anything.

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Um, again -