Badges!!
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Continuing the discussion from Daily rate limit on number of likes:
given potential for creative strange badges'
Well the badges page is looking a bit blank at the moment...
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That's what she said
Quote any female board member once
Filed under: May be unachievable..., Sausage fest
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That's an odd page.
I can't find any place to edit them, either. Is this something for which site owners can customize to their heart's content in some advanced config file? I'm sure DC can't be expected to contain all the UI needed to set all sorts of crazy badge conditions.
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I can't find any place to edit them, either.
Might be because they're not enabled. The documentation I've found so far is a tad light.
As it is on other areas of Discourse....
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... and there isn't a version of try.discourse.org for the admin panel...
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Clicking on the individual badges shows some users. But seemingly not all of them. My profile tells me I'm trusted as a regular user. But I'm not on the regular badge list. Nor on the basic list.
Looking at it, it looks like only new accounts are showing up. Imported accounts are not.
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Imported accounts are not.
Like the (lack of) welcome message, I'm guessing that we skipped the code that generates the requisite incantations...
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First request: A "Worst of the Worst" badge. This cannot be earned, it must be manually awarded. There can only be one "Worst of the Worst" badge holder at a given time. Only the badge holder can pass it on.
EDIT: And I think it goes without saying that I get the coveted "WotW" badge first.
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Good catch, I will get radq to add a backfill job for this. Badges are very much a work in progress.
See:
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Only the badge holder can pass it on.
No, I think it has to be assigned by @blakeyrat.
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I want badges, gold once if possible.
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No, I think it has to be assigned by @blakeyrat.
Agreed. blakey is the only one who can bestow this badge, mikeTheLiar is merely the current bestowee, and blakey can reassign the badge at any time. However anyone upon whom this badge is ever bestowed gets an additional, permanent badge to indicate for time immemorial (or until we get tired of Shitcourse) that they were, at some point, The Worst Of The Worst.
I think we also need a "Made a More Retarded Post than Ben L" badge. I'm not sure if this one would ever be granted though.
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mikeTheLiar is merely the current bestowee
Oh?
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/is-there-a-way-i-can-block-certain-users/332/8?u=pjh
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I dunno, are "Worst of the Worst" and "Worst Man on Earth" mutually exclusive? Because the latter could be a subset of the former.
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However anyone upon whom this badge is ever bestowed gets an additional, permanent badge to indicate for time immemorial (or until we get tired of Shitcourse) that they were, at some point, The Worst Of The Worst.
This would also be acceptable.
I think we also need a "Made a More Retarded Post than Ben L" badge. I'm not sure if this one would ever be granted though.
I dunno, popular opinion seems to indicate that @codinghorror might have qualified.
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So you won't show Post Count because "it just encourages useless discussion and gamification"-- but you'll waste dozens or hundreds of hours on a useless Badge system?
How about, instead-- here's an idea-- if you really want a larger uptake of the software-- optional pagination? Huh?
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I only support a Worst Of the Worst bage if it has a picture of a small bratwurst.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
So you won't show Post Count because "it just encourages useless discussion and gamification"-- but you'll waste dozens or hundreds of hours on a useless Badge system?
#*wink*
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I only support a Worst Of the Worst bage if it has a picture of a small bratwurst.
No, that's Wurst of the Wurst.
I suppose I could make do with a "First of the Worst" and allow Worst of the Worst to be more generally applicable.
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Wir wollen Bratwurst! Und schnell!
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@Lorne_Kates said:
So you won't show Post Count because "it just encourages useless discussion and gamification"-- but you'll waste dozens or hundreds of hours on a useless Badge system?
\*wink\*
@Lorne_Kates I believe that the motivation, to paraphrase, was to encourage "useful" gamification.
See, e.g. persistent idea for "Good Post" badge granted for every post with >N likes
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I believe that the motivation, to paraphrase, was to encourage "useful" gamification.
Which is a fine idea for a system like StackExchange, a Q&A site. For a general discussion forum, not so much. If anything, I'd rather see a "Likes Received-to-Posts" ratio than badges if you have to do something instead of Post Count.Really, if a forum has problems where Post Count/Reputation/whatever is so important that new posters that don't have a high count are completely disregarded for that reason, that's a problem with the community, not the statistic on display.
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>The_Assimilator said:
I think @Nagesh has got to be in the running, too. @ben_lubar and/or @codinghorror may have him beat on individual posts, but @Nagesh has formed a more consistent mental model.
I think we also need a "Made a More Retarded Post than Ben L" badge. I'm not sure if this one would ever be granted though.I dunno, popular opinion seems to indicate that @codinghorror might have qualified.
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@Nagesh has formed a more consistent mental model
Well that get's my vote for the most surprising phrase of the day.
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See, e.g. persistent idea for "Good Post" badge granted for every post with >N likes
Oh, I was going for the "demonstrate the folly of medal- and counter-based reputation by suggesting ludicrous rewards as per TDWTF culture" angle, but I guess your interpretation is okay too?
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Clearly, what's needed here is barnstars.
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Really, if a forum has problems where Post Count/Reputation/whatever is so important that new posters that don't have a high count are completely disregarded for that reason, that's a problem with the community, not the statistic on display.
Well, that's one of the problems with programmers.stackexchange.
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I only support a Worst Of the Worst bage if it has a picture of a small bratwurst.
You've misspelled "bagel".
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“The Bagel and Bratwurst” sounds like a reasonable place to get a drink.
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“The Bagel and Bratwurst” sounds like a reasonable place to get a drink.
No it doesn't. But it does sound like a good place to get drunk.
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On a more serious note, if Discourse tracks the number of posts a user has read we can cross that with a small number of posts made to assign them a "Lurker" or "Voyeurist" badge.
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Can they have a shifty eyes icon?
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Should I go ahead an create the @codinghorror badge, we can then assign it to @Nagesh?
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“The Bagel and Bratwurst” sounds like a reasonable place to get a drink.
You just know the toilet doors will be labeled "Bagels" and "Bratwursts"
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We also need a "Barrier to Reading" badge and a "You're Doing it Wrong" badge
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Why is the topic title
Badges!!
and notBadges‼
?I'd say
‼badges‼
, but only @Quietust would get what I'm referencing.Although now that I've said that, you probably know what I'm referencing.
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Why is the topic title
Badges!!
and notBadges‼
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Thinking about it, I actually want a medal, not a badge.
http://youtu.be/8qkSe4YM7EY
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Wait, what? You can't delete a user who's been here for more than 2 months?
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You can disable them ,but you cannot erase them from history.
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Although now that I've said that, you probably know what I'm referencing.
Probably not.
Filed Under: All I can think about is Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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So, basically, if another MPS shows up, you have to nip them in the bud within 2 months or you otherwise have to keep what they say around "forever"?
That sounds like a terrible design.
Filed under: [Why am I not surprised?](#tag2)
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So, basically, if another MPS shows up, you have to nip them in the bud within 2 months or you otherwise have to keep what they say around "forever"?
I'm sure that hiding 2 months of posts wouldn't take too long...
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Hmm. Not too sure about badges getting baked in..
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Also interesting:
"Users can't be deleted if they have posts"
'okay, that makes sense, you wouldn't just delete an active contributor...'
"Delete all posts before trying to delete a user"
'okay, fuck it, just memory hole them from orbit'.
Why not a simple "delete an user and all his posts" button? Why does a Discourse admin have to do it the long way around?
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Why does a Discourse admin have to do it the long way around?
I'm guessing to prevent the "oh shit" moments that go with deleting the wrong user...
And it's a barrier to admin.
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I'm guessing to prevent the "oh shit" moments that go with deleting the wrong user...
I'm guessing the "are you sure" dialogs just don't cut it...
Filed under: nanny state, @codinghorror is obama
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