Ha! I wondered what was going on there. And now you're one step closer to silver. Take that!
Badges for Commentards
Today we introduce badges for commentards. This feature will be rolling out over the next few hours. Check out our story here.
This topic was created by Drewc .
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Thursday 18th July 2013 15:09 GMT I ain't Spartacus
Re: Purple Vulture
With an up:down ration of about 18:1, I heartily endorse this idea! :)
stuartnz,
You didn't want to say that. Now you've put the evil idea into my head that I can quickly change that... Just pop through a few pages of your posts and vote. Of course, it could be in a positive direction, I could see if I could boost you into the stratospheric 20-1 range.
But we all know that as an embittered old lag of an El Reg Commentard, it's going to be downvotes.
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Wednesday 28th November 2012 06:00 GMT Anonymous Coward
Badges etc.
I'd rather it hadn't been done, but I guess silver looks quite nice.
I do think it is a bit too simple to base it just on hitting 2000 upvotes , though : that can be achieved relatively quickly if you take care to get in the first post which captures the mood of the pitchfork-wielders.
Those commentards who will go unacknowledged will be the sort who tend to post contrary (non-troll) views that gather downvotes rather than upvotes, but which spark some very decent and informative responses.
But PLEASE don't go down any path which affects the thing that I like most about elReg : all comments and all commentards are equal. Especially don't link the proposed ability for commentards to vote on posts to affect whether or not a post is visible.
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Wednesday 28th November 2012 08:36 GMT El Presidente
Well This Is Interesting
<blockquote>Where can I check my upvotes? Just so I know how much more karma whoring I have to do. And do downvotes negate upvotes?</blockquote>
<ul>Most</ul> of my down votes have been awarded to me by Freetards due to my stance on copyright which is taken as a direct result of having my IP ripped off by people who ought to and do know better, right up until they are caught. Then they claim they had no idea, good faith. Blah blah blah.
I do have a dog in this fight unlike the academics (the tinkering classes) who are paid other people's money to theorise about how other people should run their business, to better benefit people with lots of money over those with less. Still, at least I will wear my bronze badge with pride and I'll enjoy <sub>playing</sub> with my <sup>new tools.</sup>
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Wednesday 28th November 2012 09:17 GMT Brewster's Angle Grinder
New badge ideas.
I didn't think I'd made bronze, so I spent the whole night thinking up idea for badge I would be entitled to:
* Automatic: 50 upvotes or downvotes on a single comment.
* Discretionary: an "I helped with an SPB project" badge. That would be far more rewarding that an ephemeral promise of beer...
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Wednesday 28th November 2012 09:30 GMT Jim 59
Badges
Don't like it. Badges deter new commentards and give forums a whiff of pettiness. Also, it makes people post for the wrong reasons, which may have a detrimental affect on post quality. Also it may encourage trolling - trolls are always voted down, but sometimes they get many thumbs ups too.
Eg. This post would have garnered more favour if I made it a rude one-liner about how apple fans love badges
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Wednesday 28th November 2012 10:18 GMT stuartnz
Congrats to the badge-rs
Also the Reg for an impressive bit of social engineering. I try to post only when I think I have something to say, and so it's taken me not one but three years to get to one hundred posts, but I was sorely tempted to abandon my principles and try to score a bronze. I would stand and applaud El Reg for the genius of the idea, but I'm too busy fretting over the revelation of just how pathetically low my self-esteem is and how greedy I am for any sort of validation.
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Thursday 29th November 2012 12:39 GMT I ain't Spartacus
Re: Move the badges
Drew,
I'm glad you're moving this, I've clicked it by mistake a couple of times.
I also agree with the suggestions that other have made, to move the badge before the username, so it doesn't end up floating way out in the middle of the page for those with really long user names.
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Wednesday 28th November 2012 19:10 GMT M Gale
Re: Screw the badges.
There is? I guess this is for gold badge holders only.
Personally though I don't use ignore functions. It's like sticking your fingers in your ears and going "laa laa laa" while the people you don't like carry on talking anyway, and you're unable to counteract their arguments because you can't hear them.
Could be a bit of a backfire, basically.
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Wednesday 28th November 2012 20:40 GMT Trevor_Pott
Re: Screw the badges.
Mr Gale, I would kindly ask that you read this comic by The Oatmeal. I recognise that Senor Oats is not to everyone's taste, but I believe that he has summed up my feelings on the matter in a manner more succinct that I am capable of expressing.
TL;DR...some people are just toxic shitheads. Putting your fingers in your ear and saying "la la la I can't hear you" is just good for your sanity. There is a difference between ignoring dissent and cutting out the truly toxic individuals who will have a demonstrably negative effect on your mental well being.
There honestly and truly are some individuals in this world who have fucking nothing worthwhile to contribute. I can say with 100% confidence that my quality of life will improve by simply never having to deal with those twatdangles ever again. I have no interest in counteracting thier arguments; there's no margin in that for me.
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Thursday 29th November 2012 11:21 GMT jake
@Trevor_Pott (was: Re: Screw the badges.)
"There is an ignore button. I am so happy."
Why are you happy? What is it about ASCII text commentardary that you want to shy away from?
Seriously, dude/tte, if you put yourself out there and offer-up myopic comments, us commentards will give you shit. Ignoring it on your part won't change the reality of the situation.
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Wednesday 28th November 2012 11:32 GMT Lockwood
Woo shiny Yay
I take it going forwards that badge assignment is going to be automatic from now, rather than El Reg staff having to hack through the assignment process every day/week/month/when they remember.
AC stuff should count towards your score, or the My Posts page should be updated (You have 100 upvotes, 20 downvotes total. (AC 10 upvotes, 19 downvotes)) Actually, that'd be pretty cool to see anyway. Do people react better to me or my mask?
OR AC could still show the right badge for the commentard. AC, gold badge... "Well, I don't know who this was, but we can narrow it down a bit!"
Biting the hand that feeds IT
