I don’t think it is possible to automate it out of the box (maybe webhooks can be used - but I’m no expert on that), but I think it is a great idea: It would be cool to automatically award a badge to a user who finished a week in first place on the leaderboard.

The way we identify and follow the progress of users / potential superusers is more manual. We use our ranking system for prescreening and manual checkups for qualitative evaluation. So every week (or every other week) we make a list of all users who have reached a certain rank (which is linked to certain activity numbers) in that timeframe. Then we take that list and manually check the users’ posting quality in order to evaluate if and how we want to approach them to pull them into our superuser programs.

Hi Justine,

That would be a great idea! On our Community we used to do it manually, at first with small rewards for the number one or someone who just entered the ‘wall of all timers’. However, this took up too much of our time and often we would hand out the rewards to the same members, which beat the purpose of the gamification aspect of it.. 

After a while our Superusers even started to resent the leaderboard and it became a point of frustration with them. Since we didn't have many options to automatically give away badges to certain actions, we decided to quit the leaderboard altogether.

If we could automatically reward our users, this would help us greatly! I also feel that the data part of the leader board is lacking at the moment, since you don't have a database to check for more information on the rankings. 

If anyone has some tips, I'd love to hear them! Have a good day for now!

@bjoern_schulze I really like your badge idea for a leaderboard streak -- am going to add that to our manual badges and see how it performs. And appreciate you sharing your manual process for monitoring the progress of users / potential superuser...is super helpful, as we’re in the early days of our community.

@justine.rae curious, are you looking to reward people with anything specific (other than the badge)? We just rolled out our community and I could see us wanting to automate something like this at some point. If we ever build anything I’d be happy to share it with you all.

@mstone appreciate anything you can share, as right now we will be manually rewarding members, both with badges and starting to stand up a more tangible program with swag and other items...as nothing like a little surprise and delight to make your advocates/influencers feel appreciated for what they’re doing organically to build your community/brand profile.

curious to know how the gamification and points/rewards resulted for you both @justine.rae @mstone, if you’re willing to share! we are exploring several ideas right now, but would need to be able to export points earned per user. 

@Casstastr0phee we had to put this on the back burner as there was no out-of-box solution to automate and will be revising in 2022...as still hopeful we can find a way to alleviate the manual lift. if you land on anything before then would be wonderful to hear about it or perhaps organize a discussion in the new year.

@justine.rae you should make this an idea so we can all upvote.

+1 on @Scott Baldwin idea! I joined in on some Influitive Live webinars this week and the points and redemption seems so seamless. (Obvs love InSided but wish there were more flexibility with points and rewards because isn’t that the point?)

Thanks for the update @justine.rae! We are exploring some options with Zapier integrations alongside several vendors and gamification platforms, but it would be a lot easier if we were able to export points per user via API endpoint. Will keep you updated! 

Hi @Casstastr0phee we’d love to have the opportunity to automate send out of merch/swags users can select from a type of a reward catalogue - any update on your post above from 5 months ago?