Badges - First Steps on the Way to Real Reputation

Hi Trolls,

Thanks a lot for releasing first (beta :-) ) version of the badge framework. The handling in the profile edit part looks good to me. I’m looking forward to the next coming badges.

>>Those of you paying close attention (Chetan, I’m looking at you!)

Yay much awaited and am onto playing with it right now.
Great job yet again Alexandra and team :)

Like!!! Like !!! Like !!!!!

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This is a funny feature, I like see the badges in my profile.
“Real Reputation”

BR,

And are new cert level badges are avail too?

The badges are cool! I already love them :)

Do you plan to introduce a badge for started 5 new wiki articles or edited 5 wiki articles within the last 3 weeks :) ?

Yahhh…. Coool… I want more and more new badges :)

Great! Waiting for Ambassador badge… :-)

Good!! I’d like to have a Qt Ambassador badge… :-)

Oh, yeah! The Qt Ambassador badge is here, too :) It made my day!

LOVE IT!

If I’m the only one curious, the QR-code in Alex’ picture links to http://p8t.ch/80ol7 then redirecting to http://hyperdashery.com (I sooo love badges and hidden stuff)

Wow great :)

Cool :)

Qt and Qt DevNet is heading in right direction with right pace. Keep on rocking!

// chall3ng3r //

Cool!

While I like the badge system, here’s something I don’t like:

• The badge graphics. Too big, the font is blurry, and in general they’re too impersonal. I don’t like the writings in them. They eat too much space in the forums, and you can only show two of them (three if you include your “ranking”). How about a contest for a total redesign of the badges/ranking thing?
• The fact that they may privilege spamming (starting many threads, or joining many groups)
• The fact that you can lose them over time (like, starting X threads in the last Y weeks is nonsense to me. Once you have an achievement, it should be yours forever.)

My suggestion to second point: make thread creation badges and such only get applied after thread has gotten X amount point or similar. For groups, maybe user needs to contribute to it somehow? Just joining in is pretty easy :)

@peppe: for your #1 point, we will do another effort to make the badges crisp and no wider than necessary. We have kept most in a light gray shade so they don’t drown out other content. That is also the reason we have the limit of two to show outside the profile. If anyone has a good idea for badge design I’d love to see it :)

Interesting idea, how about some bug tracker related badges?

Or wiki related badges. I know it’s hard to track but those guys in the wiki do the most work I think :)

Badges have been changed a bit, they are smaller, the font is easier to read (no fake Photoshop bold) and the background is a tad lighter on the gray ones. Qt Ambassador was made black to stand out more, because Qt Ambassadors are awesome.

As with any taste-based development my hope is to make 80% of you happy :)

Yup, I think those look much better now :)

badges ？？？how much money! i have one

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It is encouraging!

Interesting.