Update New Trophy & Account Age Requirements For Sapphire Status

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I mentioned before that we wanted to gradually increase these requirements over time. Now that Office Outlaw has been an active forum for 3 months, we're increasing the trophy count and account age requirements for Sapphire Status.

Currently, we require accounts to be 1 week old with 15 trophies before they can upgrade. For those of you who recently joined, we opted to use the trophy system rather than something like post count to prevent others from simply inflating their post count to meet the requirements. If you've looked at the trophies, then you know getting trophies through post count alone is impractical.

Anyway, in an effort to reduce low quality listing submission attempts (and thusly refunds on our end if someone can't get their listing through), we want to ensure that our Trading Post is filled with engaged and active members of the forum.

As such, we've made the following increases to the requirements to be Sapphire Eligible:

• Trophy count: 25 trophies
• Account age: 30 days

Note that these requirements do not apply to those of you who are Founders or Platinum members: you can purchase discounted versions of Sapphire anytime, but it's not necessary.

 

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Before I forget, those of you who are participating in the Sapphire giveaway are still eligible so long as you meet those requirements of the giveaway that @Vix originally posted.

It would be a bit of dick move on my part if I was like, "Yeah, the requirements have been raised, you guys are no longer eligible" the day before the next upgrade.