Shiny, New Member Badges!
They're here!
You may have noticed some colourful new badges appearing beside member names in the chat rooms. These are to honour and highlight your contributions and experience in the support rooms. Congratulations to everyone who has one already! :)
Here's how you earn them:
Supportive Smile
Group Chats - 50
Compassion Hearts - 150
Friendly Face
Group Chats - 100
Compassion Hearts - 300
Helping Hand
Group Chats - 200
Compassion Hearts - 600
Wise One
Group Chats - 500
Compassion Hearts - 1500
Enjoy! :)
As with all the other step-wise badges, shouldn't we receive supportive smile, friendly face, and helping hand if we qualify for wise one? I take pride in earning badges. The other stepwise badges do not skip badges (for instance, first compassion heart badge remains there even after you earn a badge for additional compassion hearts).
Supportive Smile
Group Chats - 50
Compassion Hearts - 150
Friendly Face
Group Chats - 100
Compassion Hearts - 300
Helping Hand
Group Chats - 200
Compassion Hearts - 600
Wise One
Group Chats - 500
Compassion Hearts - 1500
To clarify.... I don't think they all need to show up on chat. That would just take up too much space. However, I think the other badges should show up on the member's personal page with the rest of their badges.
Love this! Thanks for adding this to the Member side :)
i have all these but i dont have the badges ?
@Ryanoleary25
You actually do have this badge! It's listed on your profile :D You can't really see your own badge in the chat room, but you can try refreshing and checking the "current participants" list to see you badge! :D
heather could you please help me
this is awesome news yay members not left out :D
@Heather
so if i have wise one, never i will get supportive smile, friendly face and helping hand ???
@TortueDesBois @Heather
That was my point exactly. We should also receive supportive smile, friendly face, and helping hand if we earned wise one. All four should appear on our profile, while the highest badge earned should appear next to our name in chat.
Is that the same for the new forum badges too??
Forum Companion for making 25 forum posts and 5 upvotes
Forum Helper for making 50 forum posts and 20 upvotes
Forum Friend for making 100 forum posts 25 upvotes
Forum Guide for making 250 forum posts and 50 upvotes
Forum Light for making 500 forum posts and 100 upvotes
if i have Forum Guide, I can't get companion, helper and friend??
and please can you change the "Forum Friend" one???
There is already a badge called FORUM FRIEND and it's a real and serious project!
I don't want lose the value of this badge because you created an other one with this same name.... Forum friends is a real project and have more value than those automatic badges.
I hope you understand.
@TortueDesBois I haven't see that, can you share where that came from? Thanks! I completely agree about the Forum Friend.
@AffyAvo, in member reputation here https://www.7cups.com/about/memberReputation.php ,
select "Community Interaction Badges"
@TortueDesBois Thanks!
I agree it's odd and while I wasn't thrilled with how these worked with the old group support badges it at least made a bit of sense as these appear in the chat room at least.
The forum badges appear to be a mess!
@AffyAvo there are aready badges for quantity (x forum posts, x upvotes, x group chats... etc), those are not a big addiction to it... and specifically here, it still not focus on quality (the number of forum posts versus the number of upvotes... ) but still on the quantity. but the forum friend one really disturb me too much.
@TortueDesBois - Yup, we'll name the new one something other than Forum Friend
@Heather, thank you
I got Helping Hand, but still wish I got the ones before it too.
@BeautyIsTheBeast
i wish I got the ones before too
@easyCucumber9508 @Heather
Okay, so I see one member with both supportive smile and friendly face. Does that mean that the rest of us will be receiving our preceding badges soon as well?
@proactiveTiger3409 - Anyone who currently has more than one badge will have earned the second since the badges were created.
We're going to be adding previous badges to everyone who missed the earlier levels soon!
We'll also be making a change so only the most recent badge shows beside your name in the room (rather than all 4).
I loved this idea until I checked group support and was overwhelmed by the confusion that all those colors created. The badge is still a good idea, it just doesn't need to be next to our usernames. Some might disagree, but I also feel like it's almost a way of ranking members and it creates a silent hierarchy. As others have said, it'd be great to get all of the badges that we have met the requirements for, and not just one. Thanks!
@IndigoRoses
I wouldn't look at it as a hierarchy.... it is something to aspire to. As you move along and continue to grow on 7cups, your badge will update to the higher level.
I got helping hands :)
