The trust level isn’t something people should aim to grind, it’s just a reflection of how active people are on the forums. The required level of activity has to be maintained in order to remain at level 3.
It’s not like posting at level 2 (or 1) means you can’t take part in the forums. Your point is no more or less valid because of it.
Don’t want to offend anyone but it does look like another instrument to rise people’s conceit. Because people will pay more attention to those who have their text in green or blue.
That’s embarrassing - shows just how much time I spend in the forums when I should be working
Also you don’t have to be green or blue to be trust level 3 … I noticed a forummer who I’m pretty sure has been banned in the past is level 3 so who knows
The text colours have nothing to do with trust levels that’s completely different.
Blue posts are members of staff, employed by Blizzard
Green posts are made by MVPs - (not employed by Blizzard) explained here…
Essentially we are just players, we have no great powers, we try to be helpful and constructive but also take part in debates (our opinions are our own). It’s worth noting there are plenty of players who are helpful who do not post in green text.
What i mean is if for example you and someone without green colored text would have an argue, both your points of view will be strong but there will be good amount of people who will side with you just because you have text of different color.
I get called a lot of names (insults I wont repeat) purely for having my text in green. It does not always work as you may think it does.
However the idea is that we can share knowledge about things and help others. In a debate obviously it’s just opinions and colour holds no sway either way.
Well opinion works both ways, just like there are some people who will trust you even without reading what you say there will be those who will insult you because of the same reason.
Don’t forget that you don’t have trust levels in all your character because Blizz didn’t thought about it for some reason. And you lose it a way to fast if you were inactive with the character for a short time.
There is this misunderstanding of what Community Managers do, the forums are a tiny fraction of their job responsibilities.
I play WoW and spend some of my time on the forums taking part in discussions It’s no job by any stretch of the imagination, although if someone would want to pay me for this I’d be happy to accept
Well Blizzard does trust me as player based on all the alfas and betas I take part of as well they did send me an orc statue, but i cannot even post a .gif here.
And to be honest i think the original guide-post-sticky is wrong of how people get 3rd level.
While I am sure you know I like you, but in past there have been MVPs, who have been most destructive, rude and trollish people on forums here. Their behaviour was so down-looking at others that they got nickname of ‘most useless poster’ as well made me (and many other regulars at time) dislike most of MVPs in process. I have to admit - when I run across with you on Classic forums after my recent forums return, I was like ,… god-not-another-one-of-those-green-trolls.
Glad you’ve been much different from the people I remember from … what (thinks back) Cataclysm days on PvP forums.