Who thinks this might be a good idea? Little badges on our profiles to let people know what our activities are on Mahalo!
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1. Over X answers provided (bronze = 200, silver = 1000, gold = 2000, platinum = 3000)
2. Over X Best Answer Provided (bronze = 100, silver = 500, gold = 1000, platinum = 1500)
3. Most points gained in one month
4. Most points gained in one year
5. Most pages built in one month
6. Most pages built in one year
7. Over M$X page management revenue (bronze = M$100, silver = M$500, gold = M$1000, platinum = M$5000)
8. Over M$X vertical management revenue (bronze = M$200, silver = M$1000, gold = M$2000, platinum = M$10,000)
9. Top Best Answers members (bronze = top 100, silver = top 50, gold = top 25, platinum = top 10)
10. Top Answers provided members (bronze = top 100, silver = top 50, gold = top 25, platinum = top 10)
11. Vertical Manager (badge with names of categories)
12. Answer of the Day/Week/Month/Year winner/runner-up (bronze = 3rd place, silver = 2nd place, gold = 1st place)
Etc. etc. etc. - the sky's the limit.
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M$Great suggestion @ritzy !
EDIT ~ I can see the images now. :)
My Opinion ...
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I like this idea. Also would especially like it if staff members were somehow clearly identified by something on their avatars...
ghanan, I also dont know of another site where the staff actually get involved in the day to day chit chat and generally get involved with a site, as much as they do on Mahalo. Also I wasnt thinking of the listings being a separate thing, I see some people having two, or even three, little badges. Eg. A How To team member, who also does QC and gets involved in Buzz would have three badges, do you see what I mean?
Thanks for confirming that the images show occasionally, I think Mahalo is having problems with pics right now, so hopefully this will sort itself out.
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Great question!
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Mahalo has been having some issues re: hosting with Flickr lately. While we get these issues resolved, we suggest using a different image hosting solution (skitch, picasa etc). I have fixed the original image (in the question) so it should be working now!
I can see the badges, and they look pretty cool.
I can't see the images either. Try uploading to another host. :)
Thank you. I just want to ask, can you see an image of three badges beneath the question? I put them there, but they are not showing to me right now. I will try to show them here. Let me know if they are visible to you.
It would be so good to know that if a Mahalo candidate achieves brown then black belt, he or she is recognized for a well-rounded contribution to the overall community. This is an excellent idea. I don't care if it is not a new idea. We need to keep presenting ideas to let the Powers that Be understand that a good idea is a good idea.
Ritzy, thank you so much for not only a well-rounded plan, but some excellent logos!
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my opinion
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http://getglue.com/SoCalSue
Topical badges also help build community as we see similarities with other members more easily.
Great question @Ritzy!
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I agree that this is an excellent idea! I think that would be a lot of fun and maybe even a bit motivating to strive to answer all kinds of questions...
Hey Opher! Top quality answer there buddy, and I couldn't agree with you more. Badges are one of the "easier" fixes I'd love to see implemented soon. Ideally, clicking on a "VM" badge would take you to a leaderboard of our VM's, sortable by "most VM'ed pages, date account created, etc etc". Those leaderboards are currently in development, and will tie in nicely with many of the badges you recommended. Great suggestion all around, and I look forward to putting many of these into place!
Best,
Corey Mac
iLove this idea too @opher you have mapped out a perfect model on what this/these should look like.. great job!
What a great idea @opher - you did forget one very important category, and one that I'm sure I would hold permanently.
We have a bunch of clean up work (refactoring) to do right now, as well as more servers to put in, before we get to badges.
However, this is on the roadmap and there will be a bunch of them that are fun, silly and informative like you've described above.
Badges will be a fun reward system and a way to see who else is in your orbit (i.e. if you and another person have the PET badge for answering 25 questions about cats).
Nice job!