We're back again with more badges! 🙌
These new ones are exclusive to DEV Moderators, and thus can only be earned by those with Trusted Member or Tag Mod privileges.
So, without further adieu... 🥁
Introducing Our Thumbs Up Milestone Streak Badges!
These badges are awarded for giving thumbs ups (👍) to a variety of posts across DEV.
To be clear, each badge is awarded as folks reach the corresponding 👍 milestone — 100, 500, 1000, 5000, and 10,000. As noted before, this is a mod-exclusive badge and so can only be earned by those who are part of our team of moderators.
Why did we create these badges?
With these badges, our primary goal is to show some love to our most helpful DEV mods. In particular, we wanted to highlight those behind-the-scenes folks who assist us by promoting good content on DEV.
Every time a DEV mod leaves a thumbs up on a post, it boosts that article's feature score. If several mods leave thumbs ups on an article, it becomes heavily weighted making it more likely to show up in folks' feeds and be discovered. We trust the wisdom of the mods to help us uplift the best content on DEV.
NOTE: if you're a moderator hoping to earn these badges, we're taking into account all of your previous thumbs ups. So, if you've regularly been boosting content in this way, you'll be rewarded for your past activity. 🙌
Wrapping Up
And that's pretty much it!
If this is you ☝️, just keep on thumbsing up any good posts you come across and the badges will come. For those folks who are interested but aren't mods, take a look at our Community Moderation page for more information about how we choose our moderators and consider applying to be a Tag Mod.
As always, we welcome your thoughts and feedback! 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 (14)
Sounds a good idea but ... it can be harmful because some users will want to get such badges by "thumbs up" as much post as possible (even bad content). Maybe we can have a limit of "thumbs up" per day?
I am saying this based on my long StackOverflow experience where we have a ton of badges and it's difficult to resist the gamification system and you will try to earn all of them by any means.
Hey Temani,
Good concern to bring up!
We'll absolutely consider the thumbs-up per day limit. That's a pretty cool idea!
We really don't want gamification to encourage disingenuous 👍s.
We're setting up a a query to pull together all of the thumbs ups given and who gave them, so that we can manually double-check that folks approach this in a fair, genuine way. This way we can call out anyone who appears to be abusing thumbsups to get a badge.
In general, the overall system should stop this from being too impactful. While every mod's thumbsup does count toward the feature score, no one mod's moves should be able to shift things too much. We're trusting the wisdom of the crowds to pan out in our favor.
But again, we're gonna be keeping eyes on things! And I really do like the thumbs-up limit idea, that would be a good gate... I'll be bringing this up with the team.
Sounds fair enough
Yes, the destructive content is spread around dev.to and we should try to encourage quality content for once
This is indeed a must. ✅
Nice idea 👍🏼
Woot woot! Glad to hear you dig it, Thomas.
I'm pretty siked on this one. Happy to give all y'all mods more recognition for the awesome work ya do! 🙌
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Yeahhh. It got mine 2 days ago! Really cool to see getting a badge for something I already like doing. 😄
Nice, but only for thumbs-up ? Mods improve content quality by giving thumbs up and down. If only thumbs up are rewarded, this could introduce a biais towards them...
This will not be the case for me, but I wonder if it was taken into account...
Could we please also get a thumbs down (it could be hidden from others!), so that we can downvote bad content? There's a lot of really bad articles here that should maybe get some algorithmically punishment.
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okay I really liked this
Awesome, keep this cool feature coming!