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"The Google Web Search Help, Google News Help &amp; Google Merchant Center Help forums all are announcing new changes coming to how forum members are ranked in these forums.Currently, the member titles or levels are from Level 1 to Level 4.  Some users get special titles, such as top contributors and/or certified professionals, or even Googler's get a special label, labeling them as Googlers.  I do not believe the labels will be changing, but the levels will.Instead of the 4 levels, there will be 20 levels.  Your level will increase based on\"Posting an answerHaving your answer selected as the \"best answer\"Having your post rated as helpfulRating a post (either as helpful or not)Correctly marking a question or answer as spam.I believe the levels determine what rights you have in the forums.  By rights, I mean, can the profile show an avatar? Can they have clickable links? Stuff like that.  Each forum sets the rights per level themselves and how hard it is to reach a level as well.  So while the Google News forum might be easier to get to a higher level, it might take longer to post a clickable link.The levels are by forum, so if you have a Level 15 in the Google Webmaster forum, it doesn't mean you have the same level in the Google AdWords forum.Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help, Google News Help &amp; Google Merchant Center Help."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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