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Badges


What is a badge?
A badge is an award that publically highlights something positive that a community member has achieved in the community. Badges can also be used to highlight external achievements, like long-time customers or beta testers.

Here’s an example of a badge on a member’s profile page:

 

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How are badges awarded?
Badges are automatically awarded to community members when they pass a certain set of conditions, or they can be manually awarded by an admin or via the API.

For example, you could set up badges to be awarded to users who:

  • Create 5 topics.
  • Answer 300 questions.
  • Received 1000 likes.

 

⚠️ If your community’s full of high achievers, and some members already qualify for the badge before you create it, then they'll only receive the badge as soon as they make a new comment, topic, etc.

 

How Tos

 

 

What's the size of the image for the badge?
Hey Vanessa, its covered here 🤓 the minimum size required is 90x90 px and a max of 5MB
Are the conditions (minimum amount of comments/topics/answers) for "How to get this badge" only applicable to the listed subforum(s) or the whole community?
@Marlies the badge will be for the whole community if you don't select any categories.

But if you select a certain category, then the badge can only be earned by performing actions in that category. Having badges which are only for specific categories can be a great way of showing expertise in a certain area, so we would advise having category specific badges

Is there a better way we can show badges on a user’s profile page? Because there’s no context for users when they look at the profile...only when you look at the profile hover popup (and even that doesn’t really tell much, like I don’t know what a Sprinter is).

Hey Vanessa, its covered here 🤓 the minimum size required is 90x90 px and a max of 5MB

Hey Shane, I think that page no longer exists. cc @Julian 

Hi there,

Our designers would love to clarify - it is said retina-ready, does it mean the icons should be 45x45 (+ x2) or 90x90 (+ x2)?

 

Hi @Marina Perminova, the display size of badges is usually 45*45px, so 90*90px will make it retina ready. I can recommend checking out inSided Design Template, where all the visuals are documented. :)

Great! Thank you, @xiaoyu-shen :thumbsup_tone2:

Hi, is there any possibility to have additional rules to assign “automatic badges”? Actually the control environment has only 3 rules: number of topic, number of replies, number of answers. 

Thanks!

Hiya @Dario74 !

What kind of rules were you interested in? If you can explain a bit more, I might be able to see if they exist, or alternatively you might be able to create an Idea to suggest new ones. :)

Hiya @Dario74 !

What kind of rules were you interested in? If you can explain a bit more, I might be able to see if they exist, or alternatively you might be able to create an Idea to suggest new ones. :)

We are asking this, because we would like to create some badges that cannot be automatically assigned.

For example:

  • Popularity: this badge will be gained when more then 10 likes are assigned to a reply or a post written by the user
  • Respect: gained then the user gives more than 20 likes 
  • Etc etc
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