Unable to post links

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I´ve had to remove the link to our forum from the guild recruitment thread. Is there a way use external links in posts ?

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Apparently the forums use a trust system. You can’t post links until you earn a higher “trust” level.

Unfortunately I have no idea how the trust levels work, or where you can see your current trust level.

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Quote from the US Forums on trust level requirements and privileges:

As for how to check your own trust level, there’s no place on the forums itself that display it sadly. You needed to look through a special .json file to find out, but i’ve now created a tool to do it for you:
https://trustlevelchecker.jodk.nl

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Thank you, Grimmj. Do you know where or how I can see my own json file? While I appreciate you creating that site, I am a webcoder myself, so I’d actually like to poke at the json file myself.

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The URLs for characters’ .json files follow this pattern:
https://[region].forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/u/[name]-[realm].json
where for the realm name, spaces are converted into hyphens (-) and quotes (') are removed, so that pozzo dell’eternita becomes pozzo-delleternita.

For your character, this is the url:
https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/u/trovlak-aggramar.json
The trust levels are groups, each of them named trust_level_X. look for the one with the highest number and that’s the trust level you’ve got.

These are your .json file contents:

.json file contents

Specifically, these are your groups:

.json file groups

You are a member of both trust_level_0 and trust_level_1, so that means you are TL1.

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According to this i should be One like away from level 2 yet i am still 0. And that as a 12 years frequent Poster. If Blizzards doesn’t want me to post here they could have sent me an E-Mail…

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I could post links the first few days of the new forums. Now I can’t anymore.

So yes, what happened here? (not asking you btw, just asking in general, if anyone happens to know).

EDIT: Nvm… Found the answer in a previous reply, doh;

“* Create links and video embeds to trusted websites like Blizzard websites, YouTube, or Twitch”

I posted a YouTube video in my example.

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You can post unclickable links by slapping code-brackets around it.

https://www.youtube.com
 [code] yourtext [/code]
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how did you mark the post as a solution? :open_mouth:

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When you create a thread you have several buttons after each persons post. One of them is for marking an answer as a solution

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You’re not reading the .json correctly. you are member of both trust_level_0 and trust_level_1, thus you are trust level 1.

I’d advise you use the trust checker tool i’ve created a while back: trustlevelchecker.jodk.nl. It will show you your trust level for all your characters.

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I’d advise the backtick instead. much easier

`https://google.com/`

https://google.com/

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This is actually Really nice. I was hoping for someone to make something like this. Even though it is again kinda sad that we have to rely on third Party Websites i order to get Information…

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Damn it i will never be level 3 i got suspended from wow forum twice already :expressionless: for some stupid things.:unamused:

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Since the new format started? Everyone got a clean slate with the new forums as far as I’m aware so don’t give up hope.

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Should just make unclickable links the default functionality tbh. It’s rather redundant that you have to do time-gated forum “leveling” to post links without annoying hoops.

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my problem is, that the forum tries to automatically convert it and so not allowing the link at all for a lower level user. how about if a low trust level user posts a link like that, it would only show an unclickable text of the link instead the material itself so you don’t have to manually edit the link?

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