yeah…thats why I refuse to participate.
if theyre gonna treat us like criminals who might post links to illegal content or something until we run the gauntlet, Im just not interested in playing their game.
As bad as twitter and facebook are, they at least treat me like an adult.
Have you gotten into the alphas for Legion, BFA or Shadowlands? I can’t remember if it was all of them or not but if you got into one of those alphas your account got flagged TL3 permanently because it was required to post in the private alpha forum. Bonus is apparently with that flag you can’t lose TL3 for inactivity or just flagging. I’m sure if you did anything heinous enough they could manually remove the flag but afaik simple flagging won’t.
I’ve lost and gotten my forum privileges like 4-5 times. Just get a WFH job with lots of downtime, be obsessed with WoW and everyone’s terrible or good takes on WoW politics.
Don’t think i was in any alphas, but all the betas for the past few expansions. Got in with the first wave of DF beta, the last wave of SL beta, and one of the middle waves for BFA beta.
I remember one day i decided to try posting a gif just to see if i could, knowing i didn’t have TL3. And then i did.
I think you can still get credit for logging into the forums via your phone and clicking a long, long, long topic and just swiping through at a leisurely pace.
I’ve never been suspended but never had trust level 3 either. Not sure why.
I’ve changed servers a few times which resulted in a name change and resetting post count and all that… but only moved servers a few times in the last 10 years or so, so I doubt that’s it.