About the inability to post links

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Test link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo7XPvwRgG8

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I can post Youtube videos it seems but thatā€™s about itā€¦ Iā€™m trust level 2ā€¦ Though Iā€™ve made various successful topics that have ranged over 2k+ views so I dunno if that has anything to do with it.

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Right back at ya! Oh I guess I can post links again.

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Lets all just post test to annoy him so he feels left out. Jokes :laughing:

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It always works for YouTube, Wowhead and Blizzardā€™s own domains. Possibly more. Theyā€™re ā€œtrustedā€.

https://www.swtor.com/

That however, you canā€™t link :yum:

But this:


Works fine. :smirk:

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Iam only trust lvl 1 btw again :stuck_out_tongue:

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i did say about those 3 things twice already :slight_smile:

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Iā€™m on my phone so canā€™t even attempt to post a test link YouTube video lol

Iā€™m too old to figure out this new fangled technology! :rofl:

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If you are old then i am at deathā€™s door :disappointed_relieved:

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Two days ago I couldnā€™t though. :sweat_smile: Maybe a temporary consequence of my silence, or the fact that I wanted to link three links in one message. Just spit balling right now. Not going to bother trying to understand the whole system.

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Nah, Iā€™m just getting stymied by the YouTube app I donā€™t know how to get the links from it anymore :blush:

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I was once banned for 3days for hurting someones feelings, I think. I was reported for trolling and blizz agreed. Ok. Thats fine. Maybe I did go overboard.

The thing is. I have used blizzards forums since I asked some question about warcraft3 I think? At any rateā€¦ for a long time. Single ban for hurting someoneā€™s feelings when I didnt even think it was trolling at the time I posted it. It wasnt intended as trolling.

Trust level3 that allows me to have all options available requires me to never been banned.

For some slight mistake I will never be able to have all options available. Thats bull excrement. Mistakes of past should get old and be removed eventually.

There are ways around. I dont need to be able to post images or videos, I can write the links. I can use Preformatted text or if that doesnt work, add space in the link. Or something.

Doesnt change the fact that the forum rules are bad.

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If your ban was before the forums changed then it doesnā€™t count as everyone got a fresh start with the new forums :slight_smile:

I know what you mean about ā€œhurting someoneā€™s feelingsā€ though. What I got in trouble for was a stupid statement that had I posed in a slightly different way with just 1 word missed out or changed to something else it wouldnā€™t have been bannable and eve the ā€œoffensiveā€ term wasnā€™t that offensive, in fact there was a character in a popular kids tv show called it back in the 80sā€¦ Iā€™ve heard worse said in infant school playgrounds :rofl:

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Some person back in the days kept attacking others, int he time we hardly had moderators left. So I just called him out for what he did and what he was. He reported me and I got a 1 week ban, he never got banned and kept going on and on the dungeon/raid forums insulting and trolling everybody for 2 more months. Yeah, bitter? I decided to not use the forum for 3 months, when I saw he was still allowed on. This was the bully bullies victim case where if the victim hits back the victim gets send home or into detention situation. Iā€™m still bitter about it, heck a 2 week ban when somebody asked for a translation. ā€œYou didnā€™t use Englishā€ He asked for a translation! Seriously?! Would have been handy if the mods just closed said thread then.

Edit: Back then I didnā€™t believe in having people banned, I always first made a post directed to them telling them the truth. If you continued with said behaviour mocking, trolling and insulting everybody? Yup then I would have reported you.

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In overwatch forums, you needed a minimum read time, minimum posts read, minimum likes received and minimum time visited the forums. And no suspensions.

itā€™s probably the same here. So look forward to weeks of not being able to do it.

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Well you need to remember that Blizzardā€™s target audience is 8 year olds, which clearly need to be protected against evil people.

Obviously posting a lot on these forums is going to take care of that.

I actually would love to know what kind of suckers fail so hard at life that they get paid to come up with systems like this.

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Btw, as a side note. Anybody else noticing they canā€™t right click anymore on WoWhead since today? Nothing changed on my side so no clue why Iā€™m suddenly not able to.

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Oh come on! You really donā€™t think this list is insane? For an official forum where only paying costumers can post anyway? Method doesnā€™t have this long of a requirements list.

Read 20k post?

Not being FLAGed by more than 5 times?

This wording makes me think you donā€™t even need to be baned to never reach the highest Trust level, all it takes is a guy with 4 alts and you are done.

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No, itā€™s just dumb, but thatā€™s different. Like, itā€™s incredibly easy to cheese it if you want to. You just have to scroll through a bunch of threads on a daily basis and throw out some random likes and youā€™ll get it after a while.

You can only be flagged or banned if you start posting. So the obvious way to avoid that is to simply not post!

And since thereā€™s only two requirements about posting (reply to 10 different topics and receive 20 likes), then thatā€™s really all you need to worry about fulfilling. Once youā€™ve fulfilled those criteria, the safest way to rank 3 is to not post anymore, because then you donā€™t risk getting into any trouble.

Itā€™s dumb. Insane is a term I would use if the requirements were extremely hard to achieve, but these are actually extremely easy to cheese.

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Actually Iā€™m not a paying customer but I can post here just fine.

Not sure if intended change or another bug. Iā€™m inclined to think the latter, these forums are quite trash.