Question regarding leveling up in the "Olden Days"

So, I have a very simple question about the rules that were in use before post approval got removed, like 5 of my posts including like 30 of my replies have been taken down by dev forum staff, and I admit that I was the one that made the mistake but I am wondering that if we were still using the normal leveling up system and everything was normal, would I potentially be leveled up to a regular?

Considering that I went through post approval more than 5 times (not really, just pretend)

Note: All of my flags have been mild feedback, nothing bad like suspension or anything

But if we still had post approval and everything, would I be promoted? And can members that get flags get a fresh start?

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At the moment I don’t believe there is a way to become a regular as they are reworking it.

i have been told that ranking was paused

I am asking of the time when post approval was still intact everyone

If it’s just feedback and not a crazy amount within a short period of time, and assuming you actually earned the Post Approved badge, then yes you probably would have.

According to the description of the extend-tl2-requirements plugin the default (thx thomas) max amount of flags against you that can be approved is 10. This could prevent automatic promotion, but you still would have had a chance since devrel also promotes users manually

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Heh, guess I have no chance then

cries silently

But anyway, thank you for clearing this up

Though I do have another question, is there a way to gain a “Fresh start”? Or am I stuck with myself and my feedback flags

“Every day is an opportunity to have a fresh start. It doesn’t matter what happened yesterday; all that counts is today. When you wake up in the morning know that today is full of opportunities waiting to be grabbed. It is a new day, a new start. The beginning of a new life awaits you” ~ unknown

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Very nice quote, however your vagueness is pointing in the direction that I can’t

every day is a new start bro, when you learn from your mistakes you know to not repeat the same mistake

tl;dr yes you can

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ok, thank you for very immensely clearing things up for me

Note that any numerical limits listed in the default of the plugin are intentionally arbitrary and do not reflect whatever DevRel actually has it set to.

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Why is there a max number of flags? It doesn’t make any sense. When everyone starts out, they might go above that limit. Will this max flags system be in the new PA scheme?

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That’s a very good question, because in the beginning everyone makes mistakes, holding them accountable for that in the future is just dumb.

If you read the topic I linked, it can just prevent your automatic promotion. Devrel can still do it manually

I didn’t design the scheme and I’m not involved with devforum levels going forward – don’t ask me. I was contracted to implement (some of) the plugins for the forum previously, that’s all.

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