Why can't I include links in my post?

Requirements for lvl 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)
Must not have been suspended (including forum suspensions or in-game account actions of any Blizzard game)

Pretty sad. Blizz can take our money but apparently thatā€™s not enough. You need an active account to post here so there shouldnā€™t be any special requirements to post links, pictures, etcā€¦

I know the forums are through a 3rd party but Blizz should have taken that into account.

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thats a funny one.
The patients running the asylum is always a good way to go.

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Forum reputation grinding is certainly like ingame reputation grinding. It is per character rather than account. The forum grind is worse though, because unlike in game, your rep naturally decays, so you are locked in the reputation grind just to maintain it.

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Honestly, I think itā€™s contrite to not be able to post pictures that would help illustrate the point im trying to make. But this?

Nah, fam. Blizz can keep their trust level.

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Its sort of outrageous all the posts they want you to read cuz I refuse to acknowledge and read those with gnomes, pandas, asmondgold, LGBQRST, high elfves, and any other thing which does not interest or pertain to me playing WoW.

But thatā€™s what makes gd gd. It just wouldnā€™t be the same without these.

I know that is why I am in trouble with upping my trust level

For when youā€™re tired of the grind in game, come grind the forums!

This, mine has dipped too low twice and gotten me silenced for a few days - no links for me comrade! (well I can link youtube.)

I donā€™t know if I am even eligible for tl3 but there is no easy way to find out and frankly, im not going to bother making sure i have the correct amount of like ratios and post count. i have better things to worry about.

Not to disrespect those who do have it. I am glad they are able to enjoy those privileges. But i still think maintaining that privelage in this way is silly.

If you just give everyone that privelage the forums might deteriorate into reddit, so thatā€™s probably why the web team have opted for this solution. i just think there might be a better way of making sure people donā€™t post anything offensive

Like for example, they could whitelist more sites. Like YouTube links or wowhead. If they know the image or link comes from a white listed domain, they can just let people use from those sites and it would get rid of 99% of the problem.

If weā€™re talking about WoW armor, why am I forbidden from posting a wowhead image of a particular item? Seems counter intuitive, but thatā€™s just my opinion.

Iā€™m in the same position. You get flagged for anything and itā€™s curtains on your reputation. And since there are no CMs in GD, itā€™s purely up to other posters to ruin it.

Your not missing much by not having links.

Well, I just ā€œ``ā€ as in www.google.com

Some sites I cannot link that are official:

https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/23236722/ny-alotha-the-waking-city-raid-finder-wing-3-now-live

I cannot even do official YouTube stuff:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CvG7VKwJb20

But I can do this site:

would it have anything to do with having those fancy thumbnails or do the staff genuinely think some of us simply canā€™t be trusted with an official wow page?

Iā€™m about to switch my main to night elf DH for like the 4th time this xpac. Will have to start over. Againā€¦

Blows my mind. I just donā€™t worry about it anymore. Guess Iā€™m untrustworthy despite being here since day one; having a 6 month sub, owning everything but WC3:R

Iā€™ve seen people with 300 posts and only a 1,000 posts read with TL3. Iā€™m not white knighting enough. Thatā€™s how you get to TL3 and 4ā€¦and not posting in GD.

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Well,
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I have TL 3 and I think the system is stupid personally.

They got the system from discourse (I think thatā€™s who it was but could be wrong) and either need permission to change things or arenā€™t able to change things for some reason. They told us they were ā€œlooking intoā€ getting ignore function back when this forum launched and that was in November 2018. They also apparently canā€™t give blues back their avatars for some reason.

Youtube and wowhead are white listed but maybe only certain things on the sites are. I think MMO is too but itā€™s been awhile since someone listed the sites that are so I could be mis-remembering that. They definitely should expand the list to include more WoW related sites though.

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Yeah, well not on a regular basis, definitely not on Sundays and not in an obvious troll post.

Letā€™s see. What can I doā€¦

1.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Warcraft
2. https://twitter.com/warcraft
3. https://www.icy-veins.com/wow/
4. https://www.pcgamer.com/how-to-get-into-world-of-warcraft/
5. https://www.wowhead.com/guides
6. https://www.method.gg/team/raiding
7. https://imdb.com/title/tt0803096/
8. https://www.wow-professions.com/guides/northrend-alchemy-leveling
9. https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/
10. https://raider.io/mythic-dungeon-invitational
11. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/hnewman/2019/02/27/warcraft-mythic-dungeon-invitational-more-than-4400-teams-in-progress-in-less-than-36-hours/amp/
12. https://www.wowprogress.com/realms/rank/us
13. https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/
14. https://facebook.com/Warcraft/

LMAO. There is no TL 4 and getting TL 3 has nothing to do with ā€œwhite knightingā€.

People donā€™t have to post that much to get/maintain it. Itā€™s the viewing topics and reading posts that hang up a lot of people. Easy way is just to pick a topic with lots of replies and scroll down through it.

EDIT: You seem to have everything met on your character although I canā€™t tell if youā€™ve visited 50% of the last 100 days. I think CS may be able to tell you where the problem is.