“Asking” for MVP tends to indicate that you aren’t ready for it… give their own council on who will become MVP, Blizzard will; hmm…!
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That sounds very “Zen”, a bit like this.
It means, “If Blizzard think you’re ready, they offer MVP to you”. 
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Actually I’m sure there are a great many people who are worthy but won’t be given it. I’m not one of them.
“Free your mind!” 
https://youtu.be/oJvBx-ha0Bw
Because they are too blunt for Blizzard PR standards 
Whatever way a Blue may try to word it, it’s obvious that MVPs have to be moderate in what they say and how they behave. And here we enter into the subjectiveness of what degree of such “really” is expected - normal, high…each corporation defines this in their own way.
This MVP is an interesting thing - these people are not officially part of Blizzard because they’re not being paid, they do not behave like moderators, but they kinda sit on the middle ground between “ordinary folks” in the forums and moderators. They are considered special (confirmed by a Blue), while some of them often may not make much sense in what they write, or often flood or derail the threads.
There is a requirement to be “subtle”, “helpful”, “excellent to each other”…which adds to the mystery. Because In the same time this program is long ago not actively maintained - there seems to be no control over how MVPs may behave (see thread derailing, etc).
For once I agree with Jito. It’s an amusing situation.
- Ah yes, did you people notice that we have TWO Blue posts in this thread?
And none to the many PvP vendor threads so far, no matter how much we asked Blues to respond.
I was highest “liked” (even over developers) user in some other developers community. Even made friends among employees of that company; but my downfall was that, when I met idio… erm “special” people, I have bad habit to tell them things way too directly or using dry old-school black-humour and sarcasm and a moderator or MVP cannot be too honest - least not on communities run by developer based in US.
I am too “old school” for “fake woke social media culture” and I wouldn’t get MVP even when I’d be walking warcraft wiki.
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Right on point.
I’m the same and I stand by my opinions unless someone proves to me I am wrong.
Also the Moderators are far too strict on these forums when it comes to bans. I got one for calling someone Russian, which is harassment apparently, which made me lose my Trust level 3, and they have no idea how I can get it back, I asked.
Definitely. I got banned once for telling someone that they need to get their eyes checked. Still grinding my trust level 3 back…
I think you just need to grind it back. Aka 100 days of being a good boy…
That’s the thing, you can’t.
Was it confirmed? I don’t think it’s fair to deny me that just because some salty kid got triggered…
I asked how and they said this, “With Trust levels ranks on the forums, we don’t have specifics we can give out on re-earning those. As the trust levels are constantly iterated on and discussed by our developers and community teams.”
So it’s vague then. I think I’m closing in on my 100 days, so I guess we’ll see soon enough.
Trust levels are the biggest and most insulting joke I’ve ever seen on these forums…
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I have been a moderator in very large and active forums and I have to say - being a simple member is actually blissful. Also being simple member allows me to be true to myself instead being the diplomat at all costs. I am polite “old school” person, but I am often called blunt.
When I was younger i thought being special (i.e. moderator or some sort of MVP type) would be awesome. Now I quite enjoy being ‘just that one of the community’. Although one of the perks on the community i mentioned earlier is that moderators get free games and merchandise, and I would have loved that perk. 
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As of my T3. I lost it 1st for ‘I have no idea what i did’ - so it was restored. And then I lost it month later and not because of what i did, but something i probably didn’t do (as it wasn’t breaking rules, but not keeping up with T3 reqs.). been here a plenty or something, but since you cannot track it, I have no way knowing how to get it back either.
Seeing how people here occasionally jump at MVPs for no reason or put them on pedestal for no reason (going from one extreme to another) - i do not see anything fancy on that status. We can be nice and helpful even without green text. At least currently there are not really those ‘troll MVPs’ like there used to. Some time in past it seemed that green text users were the worst of the worst. especially that guy with male night elf avatar on PvP forums, and then that gnome warrior in raids and dungeons. Urgh.
Depends of the day really. For example today i think patch 8.3, Dhs and their class restricted glaives mog is worse joke.
I’ve always just seen them as normal people who post what they believe to be right, sometimes I agree sometimes I don’t, I have interacted with them for a long time. Many years ago they got free stuff but from what they have said it doesn’t happen anymore.
Again, I’m similar, A blizzard employee called me blunt.
Got that label from a Bethesda employee. I supposedly have heart in right place. That was good to know.
I think most important is to remain yourself. Online, offline, have manners and enjoy the community. Then matters none what tags or trust levels you have !
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42 posts.
I see what you did there! 
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What do you want them to respond though? They can’t make decissions on their own and make a call to the community about it. There are other people in charge of that. The fact that blues post in other threads, should indicate that they do view the forums, but they might not respond in every thread.
I know they don’t make decisions, but if they can react to threads like “got my mount after 140 attempts” they can also respond to pvp vendor threads where people ask whether they pass our feedback to the developers.
Because we’re not even sure they do. We need at least something. Otherwise it feels like talking to a wall.