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January 3, 2018

What are Badges?

  • January 3, 2018
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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

 

 

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    Vanessa_MEO
    Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
    February 8, 2019
    What's the size of the image for the badge?
    Shane1
    Shane1
    Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
    February 11, 2019
    Hey Vanessa, its covered here 🤓 the minimum size required is 90x90 px and a max of 5MB
      Marlies
      Marlies
      Contributor ⭐️
      May 13, 2019
      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?
      Shane1
      Shane1
      Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
      May 13, 2019
      @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
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      becky.scott
      Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
      September 16, 2020

      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).

        Gabolino
        Gabolino
        Helper ⭐️
        October 28, 2020

        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 

        Marina Perminova
        Marina Perminova
        Helper ⭐️
        February 2, 2021

        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)?

         

        xiaoyu-shen
        xiaoyu-shen
        Helper ⭐️⭐️
        February 2, 2021

        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. :)

        Marina Perminova
        Marina Perminova
        Helper ⭐️
        February 2, 2021

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

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        Dario74
        Contributor ⭐️
        April 15, 2021

        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!

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