Trust levels are absolutely ridiculous

[Zingashi-hyjal (Zingashi)]

Put a ` before and after your link.

[Eiry-azjolnerub (Eiry)]

Got suspended once for a single day? Too bad, you are now the scum of the earth, the worst person on the entire planet, you are not allowed to post images and links ever on your life again.

I posted a pic with a naughty word in it in reply to a dude asking why white supremacy was bad.

I was silenced and lost my trust level. He wasnt silenced.

Seems fair.

[Lejk-nagrand (Lejk)]

For what i know it’s impossible to regain trust 3 on a character if it received a suspension once. You can be on the forums 1 month, 1 year, 3 decades without being suspended again, but because of that one suspension you took long ago, trust 3 never again.

That is not correct. You can re-earn your TL3.

[Zoumz-zuljin (Zoumz)]

Trust levels are just the endgame of wow right now. Probably one of the easiest grind (look how to get it if you’re really interested). Its just so people that don’t use the forums a lot can’t post bad images/bad links. It also creates some rarity, if everyone was posting gifs it would get boring pretty quick.

And you don’t lose anything by not having trust level 3, you can still format links. And to be honest less links is also better, I’m not reading forums to see some streamer/influencer video or reddit post, I read them for players thoughs/criticisms/feedback that want to be read on the wow forums, not some divas that can’t lower themselves to use the wow forums.

On that note wowhead links can be used without trust levels, so there’s that.

[Aresia-altar-of-storms]

I havent even found out how to see what your trust level is

[Zachaios-malganis (Zachaios)]

@Revolutionx-arathor

I actively use the forums but I am prohibited in what I can and can’t contain in my posts?

Have you had any forum vacations or the like? Cause if so, then it’s likely why you’re not trust level 3.

I’ve been trust level 3 for about 2-3 weeks now and I’m a fairly active forum goer too.

Use this link to find out where you stand on the trust level spectrum.

Finding out your trust level

Since I’ve been seeing this question quite a bit on here, here’s the method of figuring it out.

Finding your profile

There is several ways to find it. Click on your avatar in the upper right corner and then click on your character name. <a href="https://i.imgur.com/AozXojL.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener">https://i.imgur.com/AozXojL.jpg</a> Left-click on your name on any post, click on “view activity”.

Go into your profile page, remove anything after your name-realm…

[Karat-anubarak (Karat)]

I havent even found out how to see what your trust level is

Go to your character profile and add .json to the end of the url. It’ll show every trust level you have so look for the highest level you have. For example, this is your profile:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/u/Aresia-altar-of-storms
If you add .json you get this:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/u/Aresia-altar-of-storms.json

Your trust level is one since that’s the highest that you have. It shows trust level zero too but if you scroll down you’ll get to data for trust level one. If you reach level two, it’ll be below that and three would be below two.

[Scruit-moon-guard]

Its not that doubt you, but are you speaking from experience or is there a post mentioning this somewhere?

[Alacialuun-lightbringer]

Not really sure what the logic is. I am not a veteran of many forums, so I assumed it was to combat something that was/is prevalent on other forums.

A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, we could post links on the forums to anything. Then the spam links and phishing sites happened. Gold sellers would spam their websites to advertise as well as to sites that contained keyloggers and viruses in attempt to access and steal your gold and gear to sell. And thus, the infamous “sex leg” became to known that you occasionally hear once in a blue moon.

As a result, Blizzard forbid all linking to outside websites. However, with the new forums, posters can earn the ability to link to websites as any problematic elements could easily and quickly be shut down via revoking their trust level. Also, the spamming accounts were typically stolen accounts or accounts created with stolen credit cards.

Like that old saying goes, when people cannot handle themselves and take advantage of trust given, ruins it for everybody else. And thus, this is why we can’t have nice things.

[Stompypotato-durotan (Stompypotato)]

In light of your explanation the logic behind trust levels makes perfect sense.

Thank you.

[Kypookins-baelgun (Kypookins)]

you can also do this:

google.com

which is that top “tilde” thing(on each side of what you are linking (invisible to the eye, afterwards)), or whatever, on your keboard (the top left key, by the “1”.) People can then copy the link and go there, if you can’t

Google

[Hylianlich-boulderfist (Hylianlich)]

You have to rep grind these timegated forums.

And here I thought they couldn’t get any worse I hate being wrong can’t wait for them to lock forums behind a phone next.

[Akston-bloodhoof (Akston)]

I’m never going to be trusted here and am proud of it. I’ve seen what passes for highly thought of by Blizzard and, honestly, they want a bunch of slobbering fans.

I am not a slobbering fan of ANYBODY. Let alone a game company

That has nothing to do with anything.

[Akston-bloodhoof (Akston)]

That is not correct. You can re-earn your TL3

As far as I know, they want a system in place eventually, but if you lost TL3 due to being forum suspended you can not currently re-earn it.

[Mankrikito-windrunner]

i kno rite i shuold b well above thrust lvl 3 by now btu i keep gettin baned 4 laterally no raeson n ppl r sayin thta means i cant haev teh turst lvl i ritefully desereve bs

[Lejk-nagrand (Lejk)]

A green posted this in the TL3 Lounge. The last two bullet points seem the most relevant to what you’re pondering.

To maintain trust level 3 you simply need to make sure that at any given time you fulfill the conditions of trust level 3.

• Must have visited at least 50% of last 100 days
• Must have replied to at least 10 different topics
• Of topics created in the last 100 days, must have viewed 500 topics
• Of posts created in the last 100 days, must have read 20,000 posts (both starting posts and replies)
• Must have received 20 likes, and given 30 likes.
• Must not have received more than 5 spam or offensive flags (with unique posts and unique users for each, confirmed by a moderator) (If this happens it simply resets your stats back to zero and you have to rebuild)
• Must not have been suspended (including forum suspensions or in-game account actions of any Blizzard game) (If this happens it simply resets your stats back to zero and you have to rebuild)

[Lejk-nagrand (Lejk)]

See my above post.

[Akston-bloodhoof (Akston)]

See my above post.

I appreciate the post. Interesting they didn’t share that with the gen pop.

[Gnomest-sargeras (Gnomest)]

So it is possible to get to trust level 3 if you’ve been suspended these days? Basically it is just that your stats get reset if you get in trouble?

[Lejk-nagrand (Lejk)]

I appreciate the post. Interesting they didn’t share that with the gen pop.

Not a problem. And yeah, it seems like pretty pertinent information.

Well…, relatively speaking.

So it is possible to get to trust level 3 if you’ve been suspended these days? Basically it is just that your stats get reset if you get in trouble?

That is my understanding. Yes.