The requirements are listed here
And you can check your activity on your profile.
Okayā¦ I thought I didnāt have rank 2, which would be strange given these requirements.
Let me check:
EDIT: Huh, I do. Well, thatās fine then.
And a 3rd of the way towards rank 3.
Seriously, 20,000 posts before you can post a link?!
Jesus mother***ing Christ theyāve lost their minds lol
Rank 2 can post links to sites that Blizzard trust (Wowhead, youtube etc).
I do understand that the grind to get Rank 3 is long, however, I think that is intended when you consider that they will be allowing people to post images and gifās that would bypass certain filters that exist to prevent rude/offensive terms being used, so the fact that someone has got to Rank 3 without being genuinely reported, banned etc there is likelyhood that they would not post such images.
Itās a case of the good posters being impacted by the bad posters. Iām sure it would be lovely to trust everyone, but we all know we canāt 
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I didnāt suggest they should trust everybody. But 20,000 posts is a lot.
Also, using a gif to post something rude isnāt the end of the world as compared to doing it in text. 
There are other things that people would be able to post that would concern me far moreā¦
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https://giphy.com/gifs/trust-no-one-dUU1C1VgHZsNG
Doot deet doot deet doot doo.
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It is āPostsā thoughā¦ not threads. When you consider this thread has 286 posts in it so far, scrolling slowly from top to bottom does it.
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20,000 read posts may sound like a lot but it isnāt over a 100 day period. You can work your way through long topics like the High Elf Alliance debate for example, scrolling down at regular intervals to clock off each post as āreadā.
However like Shammoz has demonstrated, it doesnāt take a lot for discussions to clock up replies and if you read/glance through them you soon hit the requirements.
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Especially if you look out for the topics that guarantee lots of repliesā¦ subjects likeā¦
- Faction Bias
- Multiboxing
- Game X will usurp Warcraft
- High Elves
- Mythic + Leavers
- Any thread by Twiluna
etc etc
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So wait, I have to metagame the forums in a way that wasnāt necessarily intended in order for it to trust me.
Hah, ironic.
Yesā¦ Yes it is 
Oh my gawd, did you only send those smileys to your friends 
you never sended them a rose?
@-->-->
or a fish?
<o>>><
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Would you rather help the turtles make it to the water?
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/DelayedOldComet-small.gif
I have never had to artificially reach any goal even before I was made an MVP I was well on my way to reach the necessary.
I personally view it as a passive system, because you have to maintain your trust level or it will go down again. If you arenāt naturally that active it seems silly to force yourself to jump through hoops just to be able to post gifs.
Yes gifs are great but is it worth suffering for if you have to work for it XD
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Witchcraft! 
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Absolutely not, and Iām not planning to do it either. 
Still, I think itās a very high bar. Maybe not for posting gifs, but certainly for posting links. I agree there should be a high bar, but I also do think that people with my level of activity could be trusted to post a link?
Oh well. Iāll just Keep using this which they havenāt done anything about.
Not that bored lol.
Btw I found out you can complete that quest by going AFK. It takes a while but eventually it completes itself.
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A quick search told me witch-fish is a thingā¦ But no, this is just a normal fish 
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Tbh they shouldāve called patch 8.2 World of Fishcraft
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I would pre-order if it was called that 
It was something I saw in another thread where someone had tried to link a non-WoW Blizzard site and it wouldnāt post. Iām trying to remember what the site was - possibly something for one of the other games? Could have just been user error rather than Blizzard not trusting themselves!
I donāt know who to trust now! 