Bit of Advice Needed First Time Owner Looking for Sit in Near Future

[geoff.hom]

@Therese

Members will have to copy and paste your link into a new tab at first. It’s a Discourse algorithm based on your activity. Essentially, you need to browse through the forum consistently for a bit to ‘unlock’ it.

Gosh, I feel a bit silly now. @Therese, thank you for the insight. And @Katie2, sorry for any confusion. Always learning!

For future reference, here’s some info I wish I’d known before :

1. The TH forums use a program called Discourse. Discourse uses something called “trust levels”: Understanding Discourse Trust Levels

2. We all start at Trust 0. According to the link above, one thing Trust 0 can’t do is:

   • Have actual links in the ‘about me’ field of their profile (will be silently and temporarily converted to plain text)

3. When we get to Trust 1, we earn the “Basic” badge and get an automatic message:
   

   

4. After getting to Trust 1 and earning the Basic badge, any links in our profile should work.

5. How to get to Trust 1? The link above says the default is:

• Entering at least 5 topics
• Reading at least 30 posts
• Spend a total of 10 minutes reading posts