I think this is where I lost my trust level. the time frame in which you have to read those posts is too short for me (as far as I can tell). And you have to keep it up.
I think having some kind of tab where we can track our trust level requirements would be a good thing. I would encourage me to engage with the forums more. As it is, since I don’t know how far I am from regaining my trust level, I just don’t bother.
I’d be curios to know what a ‘read’ counts as. Scrolling past? Sitting on it for 4-5 seconds?
AM I GETTING PUNISHED FOR READING TO FAST?? 
Except that it most definitely is. At least the way it’s currently implemented. It’s far too restrictive and demanding. For proof, here’s a website that gets way more traffic than anything that blizz owns and doesn’t have anything near the stupidity of our trust level system and it has downvotes visible. Oh the horror…the horror!!!1!11!!!1! 
There are little dots next to the posts your haven’t “read.” When the dot disappears, it counts as “read.”
Wait! That a mobile thing? I’m not seeing them in Chrome.
I only do the forums on my PC. I use Firefox.
Note: The dots appear next to the time in the upper right of the post.
Once you hit the 20k you are good, then you just have to be here 50 out of every 100 days for “Active” status. Or at least that is how I interpreted it. But 20,000 divided by 100 days is only reading 200 posts per day, which if you are slowly scrolling a “mega-thread” to get the blue dots to fade, you can actually “read” 2500 posts in 3 hours. I spent most of my time lurking in the Waggle Thread scrolling while watching Netflix on the tv above the desk. I’ve read 66.7k posts and have only been in the forums for 96 days.
i use firefox because it really rustles googles jimmies.
more rustled than duke when he sees bushes baked beans.
They are there in every browser… next to the time or date they were posted
Nah, I lost my level because the 20k is a rolling count. The 50 out of a hundred days is probably also true, but I’m on the forums at least every other day if not more often.
Oh that thing. 
I misunderstood. I thought we were talking individual replies.
I’m probably the exception to the rule since I stream and the forums are open for the 12 hours a day I am in my studio at my desk.
You are correct. That is certainly one of the current drawbacks of the Discourse forums. Our Forum Activity Summary does have some stats on it that can be sort of useful, but none are presented in a way that makes it clear what you need to do to get, or maintain, TL 3.
That is feedback that has been passed up the chain, but I have no idea what priority it was given, or if they plan to have Discourse make changes to the forums to display that information.
I wish they would though! I know people are going to call it forum grinding, or some other game analogy and disparage it. There are those who really really do want to be able to make Wiki posts, link relevant images and videos for guides, etc. They need to see where they stand. At least in the Summary section. It does not have to be some shiny forum badge that everyone sees.
Each time you read a reply, that dot vanishes, even after 3 seconds between scrolls and not reading 
I use FF as well. Unfortunately it seems that FF will cease to exist soon however. So I’ve had to start looking at alternatives outside of the big 3 (Edge, Chrome and FF). It’s a bit of a desert out there for non-chomium based browsers though 
what are you talking about?
Wait what???!!!
I highly recommend Opera GX gaming browser. It is fully functional, works with everything, has a built in Ad blocker, and uses about 1/10th the memory of Chrome and 1/4 of FireFox.
Im right with you on not bothering too much now. I had TL3 back in BFA, but real life forced me to step away for most of Shadowlands and did not attempt to reengage forum activities till mid DF. Now I have no idea where I am in getting it back.
it better not go away. i refuse to bend to googles will. plus all my ‘bookmarks’ are there. 
all 4081 of them.