topic Re: Community Badges in Get Support

Community Badges

geogolem — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 20:00:05 GMT

I am just trying to understand the badge system.

Here is a screenshot of a badge I have not yet earned:

What does the number after "Earned by" refer to. I cannot figure it out.. lol

Re: Community Badges

kdeleye — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 15:11:30 GMT

I would presume the "Earned By" means that there has been 59 users to earn that badge.

Re: Community Badges

geogolem — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 15:12:10 GMT

So I earned the 3 Topic Badge for posting this topic.

Just thought I would provide another example. What is the 562 in this case referring to.. lol

Re: Community Badges

geogolem — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 15:12:43 GMT

Ah - that makes sense. Now I get it!!!

Thanks,

Re: Community Badges

srlawren — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 15:59:21 GMT

@geogolem mystery solved! 🙂

@kdeleye great sleuthing, yes that's what the number means. 🙂

Cheers!

Re: Community Badges

kav2001c — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 22:23:14 GMT

Does anyone know what causes the badge to "grey out"?

In my case there is a blank for one of them (in the sequence) and I never figured out why?

(The only theory I ever had was badge was earned for rewards level, but due to account suspension it was not actually awarded, so it shows in my history but is kind of not really there)

Re: Community Badges

kav2001c — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 00:09:30 GMT

Bumping an old thread as I can not wrap my head around the "earned by" part of the top contributer badges

One would think if you said "top 5%" that the number of people who had ability to earn badges would be higher as more people joined Public, but this is not true at all

Anyone care to speculate on what metric Public is using?

The lower tiers seem almost random up & down monthly

The upper tiers are a bit more balanced but even this is strange (I first hit this problem when I was certain I should qualify for a badge but for some unknown reason they decreased number of qualifiers that month, when increased subscribers + posters should increase numbers if it is a %)

Sample Data

Top 0.01% (typo on badge???)

Sep 2016 - 3

Top 0.05% (typo on badge???)

Sep 2016 - 5

Top 0.1%

Apr to Jun 2016 - 4

July to Sep 2016 - 3

Top 0.5%

Mar 2015 - 4

Apr 2015 - 7

May to Jun 2015 - 10

Sep to Nov 2015 - 5

Jan to Jul 2016 - 5

Top 5%

Nov 2015 - 15

Mystery Date (error?) - 23 (this badge must be rewarded after May 2015)

Jun 2015 - 120

Aug 2015 - 19

Oct 2015 - 19

Nov 2015 - 15

Dec 2015 - 12

Jan 2016 - 98

Feb 2016 - 39

Mar 2016 - 70

Apr 2016 - 49

May 2016 - 29

Jun 2016 - 32

Jul 2016 - 51

Aug 2016 - 12

Sep 2016 - 39

Top 25%

Jul 2015 - 90

Aug 2015 - 96

Sep 2015 - 102

Nov 2015 - 79

Dec 2015 - 72

Jan 2016 - 146

Jul 2016 - 48

Aug 2016 - 97

Top 50%

Sep 2015 - 127

Sep 2016 - 180

Re: Community Badges

Jeremy_M — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 16:55:18 GMT

Hey @kav2001c,

Let me see if my response will help you understand how our rewards system works. Simply put, we have algorithms (math) in place that shows us who's most productive in our Community and we filter those from most active to the least active ranging from 0.01% - 50% of the Community base.

Depending on the number of Community users being productive/engaging, those who earn badges can vary from month to month.

Cheers,

Jeremy

Re: Community Badges

kav2001c — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 05:14:22 GMT

@Jeremy_M oh I know software calculations are proprietary and all (they won't even let us know the secret behind our title rankings, mayor, hero, etc)

It sounds kinda conspiracy theory and all I know

Re: Community Badges

Rockdaddy22 — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 15:56:30 GMT

It all seems to work out 🙂

Re: Community Badges

kav2001c — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 21:27:17 GMT

Hmm increase in participants did not equal any increase in rewards levels

Re: Community Badges

Leda — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 04:23:36 GMT

So what you do with the badges and how many you need to get rewarded?

Re: Community Badges

kav2001c — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 05:37:50 GMT

@Leda mainly for bragging rights

Some badges seem hidden though (eg I see others have a 1 year anniversary badge, but for some reason I never got it)

Re: Community Badges

Rockdaddy22 — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 08:53:49 GMT

I never got that either, I want it 🙂

Re: Community Badges

kav2001c — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 14:44:10 GMT

@Rockdaddy22 let's call the mods, this is a very important matter for us!

Re: Community Badges

srlawren — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 14:49:04 GMT

@kav2001c @Rockdaddy22 if it makes you feel any better, I don't seem to have that badge either.

Re: Community Badges

kav2001c — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 00:56:47 GMT

@srlawren are you *sure* you have been here a year?

Re: Community Badges

srlawren — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 01:00:21 GMT

@kav2001c 100% sure yep!

Re: Community Badges

Karen79 — Tue, 16 May 2017 03:00:40 GMT

It's how many people earned it do far

Re: Community Badges

NDesai — Wed, 17 May 2017 18:26:30 GMT

Me too don't have that badge. Me and srlawren joined just 2 days apart. I see that the 1 year anniversary badge was awarded in Feb 2016, so only those who joined around Feb 2015 earned that badge.

If you look at the long time member's profile: @Cyber, you will see that we have missed a few more awesome badges.