Can you lose Trust Level 3 without Blizzard notifying you?

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:face_with_raised_eyebrow:

I work a crap ton, have a family and other busy obligations that keep me constantly occupied… are suddenly calling my random phone posts when I have a moment “unhealthy?”

I take offense to that. Just sayin’.

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Phones scroll through the forum a lot faster than the computer. The mobile site is optimized ridiculously well.

Like, ridiculously fast. But not everyone browses the website on their phone.

EDIT: To give you an idea, I loaded this thread on my phone, I scrolled to the bottom in like 3 seconds. I reloaded the page on my computer, it took me 30 seconds to reach the bottom.

Now imagine that with a thread with thousands of posts.

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I don’t have this issue on my computer. Sounds like a comp problem to me. And my point still stands. You insulted people, because this isn’t no-lifing the forums.

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Reading 20,000 posts in 100 days in unhealthy, no matter how you look at it.

I literally spend 16 hours a day on my computer apart from days I go to the store/doctor with my family, at least 6 of those are on these forums, and I don’t even read 20,000 posts in 100 days.

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I still think trust levels are hilarious. Posting links is to internet discussion as bread is to a sandwich.

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That’s like saying someone who reads a lot of books is unhealthy. Some people read fast. Most people scroll through and skim. Many do it on another screen while playing the game.

20,000 posts with many being only a few words in three months is not a lot.

Please stop insulting people.

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Right?

20k posts in 100 days it not really that bad, and can be done completely organically and without living on the forums. I actually am really doubting their comment that they spend so many hours on the forums because I spend less than that, don’t scroll megathreads and am still over 150k posts read.

Keep in mind we haven’t been able to hyperlink on any WoW forum since the early days due to spammers, so the ability to do so at all is nice. You can always post a non-clickable link just like you could on the old forums.

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Exactly. I don’t obsess here and I don’t even touch megathreads. Heck, I’m too lazy to go into a thread I haven’t read if it’s over 30 posts. LOL

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I’m sure i’ve read over 20,000 while just browsing through some of the allied race discussion threads. it seems a lot, but not really if the requirement is 100 days.

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Yup. 100 days is over three months.

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What are you talking about? Hyperlinks were still being posted prior to the migration.

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Everyone has different amounts of time and availability to do different things including the forums. 20k posts might be unhealthy for one person and not for another depending on their life circumstances. I think there is room for one person to think 20k posts read is unhealthy without it being deliberately insulting to the people who have hit that level organically.

I got to 20k without forcing it with just a little bit of deliberate focus the first time around, and I really don’t find Maizou’s comments insulting. I know Maizou and I have opinions counter to each other on other topics on this forum, but I just really don’t think they are intending insult in this, given the context of their previous comments. And I do think it’s a fair point that if phones and desktop/laptop’s are viewing things with different optimizations then the requirement might be far more odious for those using computers instead of phones to view the forums, depending on the amount of time you then have to spend to do it.

Either way, the 20k post thing isn’t really the topic of this thread. It’s more a tangential aspect of it based on trying to figure out what in the world is now missing from credentials that I lost Trust level 3, given Blizzard’s complete lack of clarity and transparency in the issue.

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No. Hyperlinks have been disabled on the WoW forums since at least when we moved to the Cata version. Only Blizzard employees or linking to Blizzard domains created hyperlinks. Nothing else. You could of course still create a link that others could copy/paste, which you can still do here too, without trust 3.

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make sure it’s not something else, too. i lost my trust 3 for a while and figured it was read posts but it was that i hadn’t liked enough posts. it could also be that not enough of your own posts received likes. or whatever else. we’ve suggested they add some way of tracking this but idk if it’ll ever happen.

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That sucks you somehow lost T3 and that we can’t figure out what exact requirements we are missing to reach T3 again with the current system we have.

I know that you are fairly active on here, as I do recognize you whenever you post. It’s surprising to me that posters that are seemingly active like you can lose T3 so easily by whatever requirement they want you to fulfill.

I have T3 but I’ve never had to work on scrolling through the mega threads, as most of them are not the topics I’m interested in.

As for the difference between browsing threads on your computer and phone - I’ve noticed when I browse from my phone, I don’t see the “blue dots” that disappears when you “read” the posts… makes me wonder if this is helping the counts go up faster when you browse from your phone, as opposed to having to scroll through threads not too fast on your PC to have those dots disappear in order to have them count as “read”?
hmm.

Either way though, hope you can get back your T3 soon!

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No.

I go in thread, to see what is about. I hit page down, all the way to the end:

I just read 81 posts.

So in any thread, I always hit “page down” until I get to the end. You don’t literally “read” all of the posts.

Then you just like a minimum amount of posts, post a minimum amount of replies, you keep trust level 3.

Heh, I was looking up the “More you Know” rainbow graphic, one of the first ones was:

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Is that on a phone or computer? I nearly never read the forums from my phone, I kind of find it annoying to have such a small screen to read from for this.

I tried that on my computer and if I hit page down, I literally don’t get a count adding up on my profile for read posts from it. It just completely skips over it.

And I don’t think the issue is my machine. It’s a fairly new gaming rig with decently high end set of hardware.

The other thing that I suppose is called into question, as I’ve seen it now from a number of people commenting is that the “read” metric doesn’t really mean you’ve read that many posts, it means you’ve either skimmed or skipped over them to get the read count without actually having consumed the actual content of the post.

That makes me wonder why Blizzard is using this as a metric at all if even the people who are getting to the count minimum organically are mostly not bothering with the content, just scrolling past to jack up the count metric without regard to what’s in the post.

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That does suck. Sorry to hear that.

I was just pointing out that reaching the required number is natural for some, just like having 10s of thousands of posts wasnt all that rare on the old forums.

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This doesn’t help the situation really, but I’ve always found what you’ve written well-informed and logical. Definitely TL3 with me, Lor

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And yet, it’s the best way to get there. Just turn on the autoscrolling at a speed that gives it enough time to load posts and afk for a bit, go through a couple megathreads that way and boom.