Subject: New Badge Idea
Posted by: johnnycat777
Date: Apr 28 10
There is a badge called Chatterbox for contributing to the chat board. How about one for "Profound Post". Once a week, the chatboard moderators could pick a short list of post's that they think are profound, intelligent, funny or meaningful in some way and Terry could pick the winner. I think this could draw more interest to the chat board and give our resident artist a chance to be creative making a new badge. All those in favour...
Posted by: johnnycat777
Date: Apr 28 10
There is a badge called Chatterbox for contributing to the chat board. How about one for "Profound Post". Once a week, the chatboard moderators could pick a short list of post's that they think are profound, intelligent, funny or meaningful in some way and Terry could pick the winner. I think this could draw more interest to the chat board and give our resident artist a chance to be creative making a new badge. All those in favour...
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salami_swami 
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I think a lot more nonsense posts would be made in hopes to be in the drawing more often... Maybe some posts might be more "profound", or whatever, but what's the criteria? It could become very biased. They might choose a post that says "so-and-so's quiz was great" over something that truly delves into the topic and answers a full thought out and meaninful question. Reply #1. Apr 28 10, 9:49 AM |
doublemm
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I Reply #2. Apr 28 10, 9:58 AM |
| doublemm
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Agree Reply #3. Apr 28 10, 9:58 AM |
| doublemm
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With Reply #4. Apr 28 10, 9:59 AM |
| doublemm
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Salami :) Reply #5. Apr 28 10, 9:59 AM |
Deunan
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Ditto to the posts of salami and doublemm. Reply #6. Apr 28 10, 10:08 AM |
| salami_swami
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Doublemm, you silly chocolate candy, you. ;-) Reply #7. Apr 28 10, 11:11 AM |
JanIQ
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Do you insist on us visiting your chocolate vault? Lol. Reply #8. Apr 28 10, 12:31 PM |
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Of course I insist. It is THE Chocolate Vault, after all. It had been long awaiting for 8 months, and it's now online; so I expect all to play it. It's the quiz of the century. Certainly not the best quiz, but it seems to have been the most anticipated. ;-) It amazes me how many threads the Vault has found its way in to. Reply #9. Apr 28 10, 1:12 PM |
Anton
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Jack Handey would dominate this badge. Reply #10. Apr 28 10, 2:23 PM |
WesleyCrusher
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As much as the idea might hold merit, subjective badges should be kept to an absolute minimum. The Editor|s Choice award already draws a lot of negative feelings because quiz-writers feel slighted if their latest magnum opus again does not qualify for the award and something else they personally consider much less grand wins it. I wouldn't want to see that repeated for the even more subjective matter of posts :) Reply #11. May 05 10, 9:11 AM |
spidersghost43
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Nice reference Anton Reply #12. May 05 10, 9:29 AM |
beachbumb101
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I think this is a good idea. I also agree with salami but about the biased thing what may be funny to one person may not be funny to another. Having the meaningful and profound badge is a great idea. Reply #13. May 07 10, 11:51 AM |
reeshy
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I agree with Wesley and others. The editors have been chosen to fix quizzes, help out etc. Not to decide what merits a badge or not. :) I think it better when the badge requirements are set down - i.e. write 20 quizzes, score 15/15 in 120 seconds or whatever. It means everyone has the same chance to do it, and there is no bias toward friends or fellow editors as may occur - after all, editors are human too and may become biased :) Reply #14. May 08 10, 6:55 AM |
pmarney
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I don't think there is any need for anything like this, but do have another idea. There are some areas where after you have acheived the highest award or all awards for a catogory there is little incentive to continue except for personal reasons. Examples are 1000000 points God, 10000 questions Monster Quiz. In the forces when they award medals they award bars to those medals if you return to theatre, win medal again or the like, so perhaps an answer would be to award bars or the like to badges. An example might be 5000000 points bronze bar to badge, 10000000 points silver bar, 20000000 points gold bar. Something like this in certain areas of the badges would give people an incentive to still compete in the catagories they have already won all the badges in. I'm sure someone with a bit thought could do something with this idea or something similar. Just a thought Reply #15. May 08 10, 8:40 AM |
agony
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Badge awarding is designed to be automatic - you meet the criteria, and the system gives you the badge. I can guarantee you that Terry will not entertain any badge suggestions that would require a human to monitor them. Reply #16. May 08 10, 9:36 AM |
romeomikegolf
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Agony, you got it right on the head. Because we are human we can't be here all the time and we can't read every single post. Only the 'system' can award a badge, and only Terry can decide if a new badge is required. To leave the decision to the Moderators would make the process too personal. Reply #17. May 09 10, 12:04 AM |
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