How about making it so that you can only post to these forums using characters that were created prior to Jan 16 2007? That would ensure that only those that truly experience Vanilla could post… /sarcasm
Personally I think that anyone who has an active subscription should be able to post on the official forums without restirctions. I would also like the classic and retail trolls to all scuttle back under their respective rocks and to stop trying to split the community down arbitrary lines.
A tourist here is a retail player popping by to check out Classic, deciding they don’t like it, then sticking around for a little bit to ramble on about how bad it is, before they return to their generic pseudo-action mmo.
It’s not xenophobic or unnecessarily aggresive. It’s just what said person is.
I’m not treating them like cattle, I’m asking them (like everybody else) to prove they want to be part of the community (aka play the bloody game, you know) in order to be able to post here, so we can stop getting all the pointless hate from retail players.
Hmm a lot of interesting posts in this thread, I had never considered the trust level thing, probably because I am fairly new to discord, I am just glad that I finally leveled up one of my classic chars to actually appear on the classic forums, however for now, I think I will switch back to my Retail Main Galrath, the reason I was posting under that name is because Galrath is my character from TBC that has never had any level boosts applied to it, so, to my mind a genuine character from TBC, I have a number of other chars over on retail but some have had boosts applied to them when new expansions were released and one other char is a Worgen and I can’t remember when that race was introduced into WoW, I did notice that that particular race levelled very quickly, probably due to the general speed up of levelling in later expansions.
It also makes sense so other ppl can track my journey through the WoW forums if they so choose, so from now on I will post under my Char Galrath Blood elf Paladin