The trust levels are defined when the forum is created, and there are criterial like number of topics read, number of posts made, number of likes given and received etc. There are also some rolling 100 day targets that look at whether you’re still an active member of the forum.
Moderators have the ability to promote members to a higher trust level, and lock them there so that they don’t slip back down if they don’t visit for a while. We usually do this when we identify people who are significant positive contributors to the forum, or when people broadly meet the criteria but may not have given many likes to other users for example.
Being at trust level 3 also grants access to “The Lounge”, which was traditionally used for off-topic banter, but which hasn’t seen much activity recently.
I promoted you to level 3 and locked you there about 2 years ago.
Interestingly, the wording for the criteria has changed to…
Free access to PRO plan for the most notable members of Blynk community
These members will be handpicked by Blynk team and will be notified about it directly via email.
The full post is here…
Pete.