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@Byucknah-agamaggan

@Bipzi-wyrmrest-accord

You have to maintain a read count of 20k posts on a monthly or bi-monthly basis.

That’s honestly crazy. I spend a TON of time on the forums, to me an almost unhealthy amount of time on the forums lurking and reading and I don’t come close to that. I have a total of 36.6k posts read since the new forums launched (Though I am also not 100% on how the forums track that or how accurate that is OR what the official numbers are for TL3)

I would have to see some sources on the numbers but IF that is the case then honestly that does feel a bit steep.

So I admit I got the numbers slightly wrong, and I’ve updated my original post to reflect the proper numbers. So you don’t need to wade through it all again, the verified numbers is 20k posts on a rolling 100 day basis. Source: New Forum Guide - Syntax and Features

I still maintain that’s legit crazy and like you I feel like I frequent the forums a lot and can’t maintain that amount of reading naturally.

I also wanted to thank you Byucknah for chiming in with your thoughts on the subject. You touched on quite a few points that I absolutely agree with and like you, I hope that if there hasn’t been any such discussion on the points your brought up at BlizzHQ, that there will be now.

@Levíathan-aerie-peak

I do know that is something that Bliz wants as well. But with the forums being 3rd party, they/we are at the mercy of the owners getting it into the code. Hopefully soon.

I don’t think this is actually true. I’m like 99% positive that this forum software is Discourse, which is Open-Source Software released under the GPLv2. There should be absolutely nothing at all stopping Blizz from making the changes themselves, and it appears to me that they already have made changes. One example being our characters in-game being tied to the forum software.

@Levíathan-aerie-peak

Indeed.

That could very well be the case. There’s probably a host of nuances that Bliz doesn’t talk about, often because some would use it to game the system.

I can in fact appreciate this. I suppose my only request in this regard is at least knowing if in fact it’s re-attainable so that we aren’t left hanging in the wind wondering. I can’t think of a reason how knowing if it’s re-attainable or not would allow somebody to game the system. Also a tracking feature to know what requirements we still need to meet to get it back would be helpful.

@Levíathan-aerie-peak

I’ll run it by Vrak/Kalv too and see what the current rumblings are.

Thank you very much Levíathan! I really appreciate you and Byucknah both chiming in on this discussion and hope it generates some much needed talks about the state of things on the forum.