I considered that, but then I thought about how they probably can view someone’s history more broadly, like how long they’ve been posting (at least back to the last forum migration) and disciplinary history. And no, I don’t mean sorting through everyone individually - I know Blizzard has had metrics for awhile, I am sure they can see who is in good standing fairly easily.
I know we can go back and forth about the technical limitations of things but I still think they could have made this transition better. It may be a matter of perspective here and one of us has limits and the other doesn’t from the get-go.
Oh… so we have to wait even longer than expected for full forum functionality. Lol.
Honestly I wouldn’t even really care that much if stuff like giving out likes and making threads wasn’t timegated. I understand grinding forum rep to embed or whatever, but having to do it for basic forum functions is stupid.
There is a way to view the form code and check. https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/u/Andrin-malygos.json
Just replace the name and realm with your own and search for the trust level groups. The highest one marked “true” is where you are. You are trust level 1 right now.
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Honestly I wouldn’t even really care that much if stuff like giving out likes and making threads wasn’t timegated. I understand grinding forum rep to embed or whatever, but having to do it for basic forum functions is stupid.
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The post limit goes away once you get to TL 1 which takes about 10 minutes.
Largely, yes. One of the big reasons we did not have the ability to link outside the Blizzard forums or link images on the old ones was because of abuse. This allows us that feature, but only after you have proven you are not likely to be a troll.
It takes 10 minutes to go from Trust level 0 which has that limit to Trust level 1 with the thread limit removed. That is literally just to reduce spam trolls on stolen Bnet accounts.
One of these days people will become wise with technology and understand that it can’t measure trust; it barely helps to develop trust. It does however obfuscate it and make “blizzards version of trust” much easier to control and manage; which is probably the intent all along.
If I was L3 trust you would agree.
Edit: and i blame our education system for passing legions of people who think that science can measure that which cannot be measured.