ive been gettin more likes lately and i highly doubt i say anything that interesting lol.
that or the system is buggy and repeating alerts…
still think we need to rework the whole system. i miss the music video topics and i was at least able to post on it somehow.
Who would do such a thing. Smh.
are we no longer able to check via the .json details?
I keep changing mains, and don’t want to be a dork that posts on a forum alt. So no trust level 3 for me!
I think that will just tell you your current level, not progress toward the next level.
All I can say is Screw them. They always need some sort of engagement meta for everything now.
ahh ok
makes sense.
most people could probably look at the requirements and narrow down what they’re missing
much edge, many sharp.
maybe go complain to the company who created the restrictions.
not much blizzard can do about it.
At this point I’m convinced it’s harder to get trust level 3 than CE.
The alert system has been buggy lately so that may play a part.
You can find your Trust Level, but you can’t see your progress on gaining the next level, or maintaining TL3.
There is no indicator that you have read X posts in the past 100 days, given Y likes in that 100 days, etc. Because that 100 day window rolls, it is always changing and needs to be maintained.
If you read a mega thread to get TL3, when that drops outside the 100 day window your TL3 drops off during the next forum TL update (roughly once a day it does an update to adjust trust levels based on stats).
Same has happened to me. You can get it back reading reading ruffly 200 posts a day, plus normal contributions and hearts for the most part. I just don’t feel like doing it again.
I got sick for a month and lost it. Other times I choose not to get on because of being bipolar I know I’m going to read and respond terribly so loosing Trust level after actively trying not to cause any problems and post from a centered space seems really unfair.
I’ve been here five years, most people, including the mods know who I am and I’m not some nasty troll. Their should be some other criteria once you gain it not to lose it just because one chooses to pull back before making unwise responses.
I understand if you’ve been gone 6 months. You need to get the pulse of the forum and reintroduce yourself as well as get to know who the new people are on the forum. Personally I liked being able to link help articles and such - plus of course the fun stuff. Meme’s and gifs can tell you more about person than plain writing.
I just give this time - I pulled back because of mental health concerns and my reward for self-restraint is loss of trust level.
There IS a way to do that but it is very rare, and takes a lot of approvals to make happen. The Community Managers, or Forum Support Agent for CS, can create a new forum group. They can then assign permanent TL3 permissions to that group. After approvals they can manually put people in that group if they want. The people would stay there on that character until manually removed.
Nevalistis did that on the Diablo 3 forums when we switched to this Discourse software. She had 4 people she added and I had 3. Many hoops were jumped through, esp for me to get approvals. I still monitor those 3 people to ensure they don’t do something horrible or their account is not compromised and spewing linked spam.
The other thing Blizzard can do is adjust the metrics for what it takes to reach TL3. The forum software lets them change the number of posts read for example, to a lower number. They have done that on the lower traffic forums like Diablo games.
Thanks for the info all.
I will regain my ability to wow you all with my deeply meaningful memes and gifs!
I honestly don’t know how you peeps are holding it together without them.
Friends in high places? 
- /joking
Thanks for the more in depth reply. I’ve seen some people with permanent TL3 that makes me scratch my head sometimes though, lol
that was the result of a created user-group for people who participated in earlier betas.
…the group was dissolved, and everyone landed on equal footing.
That got fixed. There was a Beta group that had permanent TL3 permissions not just for the character, but for the whole license or Bnet account. The group permissions were recently fixed so that it does not do that anymore. That is also what has led to a lot of these threads where people are now learning how the software is actually supposed to work.
TL3 to post support links and images to guide folks through support steps is so important. I HAVE thought about that, but not addressed it with anyone. I fear that it would lead to backlash against the people who were included in it, esp if they post outside the Support forums.
i’m a nuisance, but i’m also a helpful nuisance 
i enjoy my share of being silly, but i also spend a lot of time helping people out… and would probably stop offering assistance if i couldn’t drop links.
even using the “workaround” to post a non-clicky url, it’s just an extra hoop to jump through.
i’m not even sure if TL1-2 can use internal links?
i feel like i remember a time where we couldn’t post links to external sites at all, but everyone could link blizzard pages.
(clearly not with this forum software, but blizzard did want us all to be able to share their own resources at some point in time… back when we could access the entire item database through the blizzard site)
sry if been asked but how long does it honestly take to get tl3? cos i thought it was 4-6 months.
I don’t know… I could pull out an alt and test that I suppose. I know some sites are white listed so that people with lower trust levels can post them. I don’t know if that includes Blizzard sites or not. It SHOULD, but I don’t know if it does.
I can’t actually see Blizzard’s side of the forums. I can only go off of what the Discourse software documentation says, what bits Blizzard has shared, and what I can observe/test.
Pretty sure Youtube is one of the white listed sites for example.