Discours with their Trust lvl system is not only antisocial and unfair to players with a lower lvl. Such a system is contrary to what a forum should be.
A forum is there for players to talk about certain topics without any limits or restrictions.
In addition, if you read what Discours writes about their Trust lvl. it would be possible that players with high lvl. that those players can simply make lvl 0 disappear so that you can no longer see their topics.
Users at trust level 3 can…
Recategorize and rename topics
Access a secure category only visible to users at trust level 3 and higher
Have all their links followed (we remove automatic nofollow)
TL3 spam flags cast on TL0 user posts immediately hide the post
TL3 flags cast on TL0 user posts in sufficient diversity will auto-silence the user and hide all their posts
Make their own posts wiki (that is, editable by any TL1+ users)
Daily like, edit, and flag limits increased by 2×
How can such a thing be part of a social and balanced forum? How can it be that players have more rights than others? Who came up with this nonsense.
Coming up with such an idea must hurt your head.
You have managed to turn a functioning forum into an antisocial and non-transparent mess.
If you already want to keep this absulutely bad variant of this forum. Remove these useless and unfair Trust lvl.
This system was designed to deliberately do several of the things you mention, don’t think for second otherwise. It’s a cute way to curb the more outspoken players disgruntled with numerous aspects of this game without a moderator being the bad guy.
I don’t like it neither but I don’t think they can remove it since it’s built in with this specific forum program I think.
They can adjust the values tho and make it easier for us to unlock the levels. They are planning on making the edit option available for everyone tho so there that.
Don’t hold your breath on everybody being able to get to the edit level. This is going to create a very distinctly layered cast system with forum users, it’s by design.
Considering how outspoken some parts of the community were before and the fact there is more or less an auto censor at a certain trust level makes it worse. Let’s say that whoever looks at Xbox posts suddenly censored us all on their end, how would we be heard by them if they can’t see the posts?
They turned the forum into a grind as well, have to get your daily logins to 50 out of a 100 days, must have viewed up to a 125 topics in that period, so those are your daily tasks, must have read up to 5000 posts in a 100 days, that’s your special task.
And then you must do this constantly or you’ll lose this trust level, which is the battlepass grind.
Now all we are missing is a forum economy, getting likes gives you 10k SL, getting flagged costs you a 100k SL but you’ll be able to buy more SL of course.
I agree their new design will allow for the bad members or the community to gatekeep, this is an inevitable stop in the road for this new forum if they don’t fix it before it becomes an issue.
Essentially their going to see the forums user population section it off into micro nations made up of factions of users and each article created will be a volatile demilitarized zone filled with border checkpoints basically.
If you guys remove the levels and only have mod tiering like in the last forums then i wojld be more comfortable here. Without fear of someone editing my comments later on.
Now whats the feature that no longer lets me directly reply to people?
Seems very similar to shadow banning IMO, seeing as my reply would be lost in the thread