We're starting off the week right with another badge addition. 🙌
Introducing the Icebreaker Badge!
This badge rewards those who regularly leave the first comment on other folks' posts, helping to "break the ice" and get discussions going.
How it works
The best thing you can do to earn this badge is to be the first commenter on a post and leave a thoughtful, engaging comment. While dropping a simple "nice post" is a kind and welcome addition, to get this badge you'll need to put more thought into your comment. We're going to be keeping a particularly sharp eye on #discuss posts as we really appreciate it when folks help initiate discussions there. Lastly, note that we will not be rewarding folks this badge for commenting on their own posts!
As for logistics, every couple of weeks members of the DEV Team will meet up and pull data on the most frequent first commenters. We'll then manually review those folks, picking out who we believe have shared particularly good ice-breaking comments.
Why did we create this badge?
Like the Warm Welcome badge, we designed this badge to reward folks who help us create a kind, warm, and welcoming community. Being the first to comment on a post helps encourage other folks to open up and share their thoughts too. Comments are an essential part of what makes a community — without you all interacting and sharing ideas on each others' works, this would just be a platform for publishing. So, we really want to reward all those out there helping to break the ice and get conversations flowing.
We're really siked for this badge and hope you are too! If you have any ideas for badges that you think we should add or actions you feel would be worthy of rewarding, don't hesitate to share your thoughts in this post.
Cheers,
The DEV Team
Top comments (25)
nice post
The fact that is the first comment is comedy gold! 🤣
Somebody had to do it. 🙂
Grrr...
Haha, alright alright... we deserved that. But just to say, I would make an exception to the rule for this one. Count it!
Wooohoo, good addition!
Congrats to the first batch of winners for this badge: @baenencalin, @theaccordance, @thomasbnt, @manchicken, @chantal, @kurealnum, & @schbenedikt. 🙌
Thank y'all for leaving so many first comments on folks' posts!
Oh? Thanks! 🙌🏼
I felt so happy yesterday when l opened my emails and saw this. I really wanted it lol.
Except... I only feel like a half-einner; as far as I'm aware, I only left one first comment, and ut was on my own post.
Nonetheless, I am honored to be one ov the first few to receive the badge.
Haha! On the contrary, you left 17 first comments since August 1st... unless we're doing something wrong, you left more 1st comments than anybody on DEV for the month of August! 🙌
Oh, haha! Totally understand. 😀
We decided to go ahead and look back to the start of the month... we really wanted to go ahead and reward this one to some well-deserving folks, which you are definitely one of.
Thank you, I really appreciate that I received this award!
I’m just here to have a good time and hang out with my friends. Thanks for saying nice things.
My employee working for me to earn this badge:
Oh you should have won! LOL
Loved the badge! I need to add this on my list hahahaha.
My time has finally com-
Oh... Oh.
Guess I'll put away my ice pick.
Leave Antarctica.
Amazing
I'm glad you enjoyed the badge! I want to include on my list.
Wow, interesant badge, El universo los ama 😇🤓
Nice feature :)
Nice post🤍✨
I totally love the IceBreaker Badge! Being that I have been to Toastmasters, I can see that this Badge will be extremely beneficial for new people to post their thoughts. Great job Dev Team!
I get this badge recently haha
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