I put this in website issues a few weeks back but no reply or no change.
The Issue:
I run a Mythic Raiding guild that’s operated for 14 years in WoW, over the years we’ve had a small handful of GM’s, Raid Leaders and Officers who have owned the recruitment side of our guild. I have played Wow since Vanilla Beta in Europe and then transferred to OCE realms on a new account 10 years ago.
I’ve used the forums on and off for 20 years with no warnings, bans or any other issues.
As of 6 weeks ago I am unable to edit or create a new recruitment post with Links in it due to my Forum Trust level of ‘Member’ and having researched this it states to get a higher trust level I need to post more here.
So we cannot update Discord or Recruitment form links in our post and we’re getting people contacting us stating the links are wrong.
We use Raider IO and Warcraft Logs also to help with recruitment but one of our more consistent hits was from our Wow Forum post. We dont post regularly on them, and we never will, simply we dont have time to run guilds, plan Mythic raids, manage all the rosters/strats and then post in our class forums about how great our classes are (lets face it people never post about good stuff in them).
But we need to be able to reach the community with the correct information.
Can you have a look into our ‘trust ranks’ and I’m sure we’re not the only players here who are having trouble who have such an extensive history within this game that spans over 2 decades… then the forums tell us - yeah you dont have enough worth to post content… it leaves a bitter taste.
Edit - lol even when posting this I got an error stating I’m not allowed links in my posts because a I put a . before the IO. Case & point right there.
You more then likely need a couple thousand posts read adn likes. Also you woudnt get a response from the bug report forums its a one way street. A blue can narrow it down a bit but it will take some time and a full day to get lvl 3 again.
Eradicated if you had it previously under a beta test grant. This was done a little while ago which has also hit me - I can’t post links anymore either.
Maintenance of the 20k “read” posts is 200 posts “read” a day. I emphasize “read” because you aren’t required to actually read the posts – just merely stay long enough at them for the blue dot to disappear and the software to mark it as read.
Some people like to hit the mega threads and scroll through those to hit more at once. But be aware that only posts created in the prior 100 days of you viewing them will count.
Personally, I just hit large threads occasionally, I prefer smaller threads (and lots of them) so that I can cover the 500 topics viewed requirement as well.
If I do wander into a large thread, I just use a browser extension to autoscroll at a slow speed while I am not at the computer.
So what is the issue with me editing a post that’s already been created months ago?
Like I cannot edit my guild post without removing all links whilst 1 is still valid, so my guild will forever be 6/9m Amirdrassil and not reflective of what we actually were… and then when new content comes out we’ll still be recruiting Tanks for Amirdrassil when we need DPS for something in 3 raids time.
It’s an extremely broken system thats unrealistic to maintain.
Theres 2 solutions:
Make a better guild finder in game to help with recruitment
Both of ur suggestions wont be heard here u need to post in the bug site report feature if u want a suggestion you wont get a reponse but it will be read.
That is correct, though there is a work around. The New Forum guide posted by Kyzera above shows how to post links if you lack the trust level to do so. You want the section about code lines.
Posting a Code Line
Other users can copy and paste it.
Until Trust Level 3 is re-earned, that’s your only solution at the moment.
It is a punishment when something is taken away from you for no reason that then causes additional stresses and further time and effort needed to have a consistent raid comp - you’ve obviously never been in a situation where you’re managing a roster.
It really isn’t, the forum devs fixed a bug that had folks perma level 3 trust. Now everyone will need to have to spend time to earn and keep it if they want it. Using the forums ain’t a requirement to play the game and you can put links using the `. All you’d lose out on is the preview of them.
This. Many of us were given the trust level for a beta. It should have been removed after the beta, but never was. They fixed this bug a few months ago. Now everyone is treated the same. This is a shocker to those that didn’t realize the trust level requirements, but it’s not a punishment.
If you want to suggest changes, this isn’t the place. There are no decision makers in this area of the forums, and nothing anyone can do here.
to disappear and the software to mark it as read.