We're back again with more badges! π
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... π₯
Introducing Our Thumbs Up Milestone Streak Badges!
These badges are awarded for giving thumbs ups (π) to a variety of posts across DEV.
To be clear, each badge is awarded as folks reach the corresponding π milestone β 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. π
Wrapping Up
And that's pretty much it!
If this is you βοΈ, 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
Latest comments (31)
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This π option is available in left side of DEV post under bookmark save option.
On clicking this you will get Moderate post option to select High quality π or Low Quality π post.
Is there a way to see how much π I made?
Are the π taken into account, also?
Also to make sure, you are talking about this right?
As the thread is old, I summon a DEV bard @michaeltharrington
That's a really good question!
Unfortunately not yet, but I have been advocating for us to add mod analytics to the Mod Center. My goal is to make it so that you all can see things like how many π/π/π© you've done over a given time (day/week/month/year/eternity... or maybe a customizable filter) + I'd like to make it so that y'all can see how many action the total group has taken. This way you'd know how much you are contributing to the overall pool of actions.
I'd also like to make it so that y'all can get a more drilled-down view of what exact actions you've taken and have the chance to undo them if you wanna. For example, let's say I π Sloan's latest post here, but then I have a change of heart for whatever reason... I'd have the ability to go and remove that thumbs-down.
To be clear, I've made these requests, but they're a bit of a difficult thing to deliver on and so we've not been able to act on them yet. In any case, I'll flag this again to the team and see if we can get any movement here!
Oh and one more thing... eventually, we plan to make various updates to badges. Included in those updates, I think we'd like to show some sort of progress bar for folks who are working on badges like this. I don't know exactly how granular this would be or what exactly it would look like, but this should also help you if you're trying to work toward earning a Thumbs Up Milestone badge and wondering how far along you are. Again, I've not got a timeline on this, but it's something that we've talked about several times and I know we'd like to deliver on this one.
For the time being, I can use my analytics tools and pull how many thumbs ups you have. I'll email ya with this info!
Thanks for the complete follow up.
I won't ask you for my statistics yet. First reason, it's a vanity metrics. I don't need it. I was just curious. And then, if you accept to send me the analytics/metrics. You would the Pandora box, everyone might ask you for them.
I really appreciate that Christophe. π
Also, I realize I missed a question of yours... the thumbs downs are not counted toward this goal currently. Our main reason is that we lean more in the direction of encouraging positive behavior than negative. We do think the π is a necessary tool for pushing down lower-quality content, but we don't want folks going too overboard with this one if that makes sense. Meanwhile, we're more okay with a little too much π β though don't take that as a license to thumbs up everything willy nilly, haha! (To be clear, I know you won't; it's clear to me that you are a thoughtful person. π)
Anywho, appreciate your questions and hope we can pull these features together sometime in the near future to give you better insight into what all you've done!
OK, thanks for replying my point on π count.
I'm using it often when I see posts without value.
And flag inappropriate content (spam/ads)
I'm a bit surprised you to say using π is not important, or at least necessary.
I also use the experience level tagging: noviceβ¦expert
I understood you appreciate me, don't say it publicly. You will get caught for favoritism.
Oh BTW, I asked for a favor here as I'm fun guy github.com/forem/forem/discussions... π€£π
I'm gonna keep this short because I'm running low on time... but, don't put too much weight into my explanation above. The thumbsdown is important and you are using it correctly! Experience level is also good to set!
We see the potential for these badges to be gamed. A mod could go in and thumbs up or thumbs down a bunch of things willy nilly. To be on the safe side, I'd rather encourage thumbs ups than thumbs downs because if someone feels really encouraged and goes wild, the effect won't hurt anyone. That's all!
I will do my best to check out your request later on today! Catch ya later. βοΈ
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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.
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...
Awesome, keep this cool feature coming!
Yeahhh. It got mine 2 days ago! Really cool to see getting a badge for something I already like doing. π
okay I really liked this