Well I am sure we have all seen them, just copy and paste into your own test file.
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This is the approach I take.
I like the idea of the shared canned replies. However, it doesn't meet my requirements so I prefer to use my own system.
I remember to read the criteria for reaching a trust level, but I can't find it now.
Probably this?
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Maybe but I never received any messages about this like the blog says you should.
I believe your trust level progression had some manual assistance, rather than following the standard automatic sequence that includes the receipt of messages.
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Me too.
However, when I look at the date of the my badges that seems to have become TL3, I think I've automatically become TL3 in my case.
It's pretty close to the conditions listed there...
Just coming across this topic - in a section I am most unlikely to read otherwise - my concern is that if a post is moved to another section, how does the poster know where to find it and its replies?
I am in general, not sure how a (new) poster finds his way back to his enquiry in any case! 
3 ways:
Mods who move things generally add comments to say what has happened. There's at least one trust level 3 member who often moves posts and he too adds comments to say what he's done. Adding a comment generates a notification, which the OP should see and thus bring them to the topic.
As soon as someone else replies then that will generate a notification, leading the OP back to their topic.
If someone really can't find a topic they have created then they look in their profile under summary where they can see there is a list of Top Replies and Top Topics, they should be able to find their topic in there.
But in which forum does that comment appear?
I realise the notifications; a new user should get these while I have them filtered (not blocked).
I suppose that is easier in the new forum software. It was incredibly difficult under the old! 
I don't understand what you are asking, when I post this you will see a notification in your profile. Clicking on the notification will bring you to the topic wherever it happens to be in the forum.
People posting to completely inappropriate forum categories is very common. It has always been that way, and these miscategorized topics have always been moved. I estimate that the moderators move well over 20 topics per day, 7 days a week, and that has been going on for a decade.
The only thing new is that there are perhaps a few more people sharing the workload, which will improve the response time.
Yes. It was horribly unintuitive in the old forum and easy in the new forum.
Merely that if a newbie (or indeed ...) posts in a given forum and bookmarks that forum - or that post - then if the post is moved, it will no longer appear in that forum.
Does a moderator (or "level three") put a token entry back in the forum? I would gather that there may be a function that a moderator could use to do that automatically, the same topic heading and author but containing only a link. As I recall, the old forum did that. But what happens if a "level three" moves it?
Just wondering on the detail.
@Paul_B one of us is missing the point here, or missing something, and I really don't know if it's you or me.
Are you getting notifications for this topic against your profile? As in are you getting a little number against your avatar in the top right of the page indicating there are notifications for you? And when you look more closely you see there are 2 notifications for this message, one because I mentioned you and one because there's a new comment (this one)? That's how someone knows.
I'll test this in a moment for you...
Moved from community / web site and forum to community / bar sport to demonstrate what happens.
Did you find your way to this post Paul?
The topic URL remains the same. So a bookmark to a post will still take you to the post no matter how many time it has been moved.
That was a horrible feature that cluttered the forum and gave an unfair officially sanctioned cross-post to the people who didn't bother to pick an appropriate forum category, pushing the topics from the responsible people off the first pages much more quickly. One of my favorite things about the switch to Discourse is that it stopped that practice.
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So in short, the only limitation to a poster finding their post would be if they remembered the main forum index and then went looking specifically in the sub-forum in which they believed they had posted it. Fair enough.
I had no trouble getting back here since I never left. For the moment, I have it in a separate tab and it auto-updates - unlike the old forum.
The only real problem is that every time I back up to the main forum index, it resets to the start of that index or somewhere essentially random! Well, it does a few other annoying things also ...
@Paul_B ,
I've moved it back, as you can see I expect.
Have I / we answered your question?
I came here as Mike explained he had moved a wrongly placed newbie post. I don't quite recall (because it is not exactly quiet on the general fora) whether said newb ever reappeared on his thread - as a proportion do not.
It does seem that given the default settings for a newb, if they cannot find their moved thread, they do not deserve to. 
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Here is the topic in question:
https://forum.arduino.cc/t/beginner-help-with-light-display/910765/last
No sign of @godlyd since. But there are the alternative explanations that they found the solution elsewhere (including on their own), or that they are not receiving notifications and assumed that they didn't get a response, or that they haven't had time to check back since.
It would be interesting to get some input from a new user who had their post moved regarding whether that caused them any difficulty finding it. @godlyd, maybe you could tell us about your experience.