New French Badges for Community

[kav2001c]

I had this idea in other announcement thread just now

For last couple of months, Jeremy has made it a point to give credit to the french speaking member who has helped out the most

And lets be honest, even since old CDMA days Public has had a good size client base dans la belle province.

So my suggestion is create a special tier of badges (3 to 5 minimum) to give recognition to our bilingual / french speaking members who offer support

Reward level would be worked out by Public, but they would get a unique french "Haut 5%" on thier profiles (hot lol, ok maybe wording needs some discussion still)

@Jeremy_M & @CS_Agent how bout it? 🙂

[zhadj030]

I like this idea . 🙂 

[jpar]

Agreed!

[Karnbot13]

How about Mandarin and Hindi as well?

[kav2001c]

@Karnbot13 I don't think there are enough questions from members in those languages 

I have yet to see one (if you could provide a link?)

[Karnbot13]

I imagine they are members struggling to converse in English, noted by some of the grammar. Take a poll of the first languages spoken by people on this site. It might be surprising what the dominant language is apart from English.

[kav2001c]

@Karnbot13 its not a bad idea; I just do not think we have that many yet who are non english and non french speakers

Realistically if they do not speak any english or french (or very poorly) how would they have signed up with the service in the first place?

Unless Public is running some advertising in other markets I am unaware of... ?

[Karnbot13]

It doesn't take much mastery of either official language to sign up for this, wouldn't you agree? A similar badge for members that speak other languages would be a nice addition as well. Especially for members that may be more comfortable speaking in a language other than French or English.