I don’t really know.
At start, I was thinking that badges was childish.
But, finally, badges are a way the community mesure, qualify and quantify each member implication, or proposal.
It’s a way to see if such member is really interressed or not… If one member connect each day without posting , and another one connect one time per month just to show himself.
In other way when a newcomer ask something and there two opposites answers… It’s a way to determine what answer is more relevant, isn’t it?
well… let’s say that @filippo_carletti visit this site just once a month… I know he’s a really NS expert, I don’t need to know which badge he really has…
When he answer something, we just have the Dev Team information, that’s a big information.
Just think it’s a tool for @alefattorini see how is the community health.
Just think the possibility to like an answer, it’s a possibility to the Team to motivate a newcomer to participate more.
I think it’s important when a newcomer post for the first time, or make a proposal to receive one or more like… It’s a good way to motivate. More, yet, when the community is young and small.
Now, I said yes, it’s important.
It’s a good tool for @alefattorini to see the growth of the community, to try to mesure each community adding, and how to motivate, and finally find the right rule for the right member.
On average, in every community there is the 90-9-1 rule. This means that of 100% members, 90% is more or less inactive and only reads, 9% is active and posts regularly and 1% is a community promoter.
Maybe it would be nice if the badges give a more or less accurate image of these percentages in the community. The challenge is to get the active and promoter percentages above average.
Man, 120 days consecutive are 4 months where you have to login EVERY single day, no exceptions. It looks hard for me, as a matter of fact there are only two winners as for now
But, since I’m here, I’m connecting each day, so this one not seem too hard to achieve.
You ask me my thoughs about the “badge” path… I think 4 months to achieve a gold level path is little short, I think six month should better., there silver badge harder to earn…
I don’t like. It’s not only that fact I’m like or not.
It’s the way to achieve them.
If you look the badge “contributor”, there only one gui who achieve it…So a badge “great contributor” seem absurd.
I think the badgs, actually are globally fine.
Few of them have problems ( the way they work like promoter) or counters that have problems ( like collector).
I think it’s the way to achieve them that should be balanced…
But if you to give me a special one, I already accept