I might be completely mistaken (!!), but I think I received such a badge years ago already...
If that would be the case, does this mean perhaps that Discourse takes away our badges as soon as we have a period of lower activty? Which would be mathematically correct, but quite ungrateful imho. In that case Discourse would become an asocial media platform...
My right-hand man ChatGpt tells me that this is not the case:
once a badge is granted, it is not typically removed from a user’s profile
But it wouldn't be the first time that he fooled me ...
Personally, I knew I was going to lose it because I had a big month-long rush. But as Marcus said, we can be busy personally and still be present when we are mentioned, for example.
For me "badges" fall somewhere between patronising like a primary school gold star and creepy like adverts based on my location and search history.
Except I can turn those off.
@BartButenaers - Discourse Trust Level 3 (also known as 'Regular') for users, is established on a rolling 100 day period, so if you dip below the necessary requirements, the badge (level) is reduced from 'Regular' to 'Member'.
So to get to trust level 3, in the last 100 days…
Must have visited at least 50% of days
Must have replied to at least 10 different non-PM topics
Of topics created in the last 100 days, must have viewed 25% (capped at 500)
Of posts created in the last 100 days, must have read 25% (capped at 20k)
Must have received 20 likes, and given 30 likes.*
Must not have received more than 5 spam or offensive flags (with unique posts and unique users for each, confirmed by a moderator)
Must not have been suspended or silenced in the last 6 months
Discourse say; "All of the above criteria must be true to achieve trust level 3. Furthermore, unlike other trust levels, you can lose trust level 3 status . If you dip below these requirements in the last 100 days, you will be demoted back to Member. However, in order to avoid constant promotion/demotion situations, there is a 2-week grace period immediately after gaining Trust Level 3 during which you will not be demoted."
I've now set it to 200 days minimum... so hopefully won't be so "aggressive".
Also if anyone feels they have been unfairly dinged let me know and I can manually bump and lock their level.
For example it (feels like) 50% of messages are related to dashboard 2 at the moment, which I don't currently have time to experiment with, so I'm unlikely to read them all.
Maybe, but the Node-RED forum has generated 9,720 posts in the past 100 days, and the current 'Level 3' requirement is to read 25% (which is discourse's default setting).
So 9,720 X 25% = 2430, divided by 100 days = a minimum average of 25 posts to be read per day.
If you scan through a single topic, you can quickly reach that figure.
However, in the past 100 days, you have read 5,483 posts , which is almost double the requirement!
