Badges seem to display on user profiles based on the order in which they were received.
Communities (like mine) with robust badge gamification may want to set a hierarchy to badges, so that the most valuable/prestigious are listed first on a profile.
Use cases:
- Showing most prestigious badges first (before the cutoff) on the leaderboard
- Manually applied badges that get added “out of order”
For example, if a community has an onboarding badge, it’s likely to be the first badge earned by many users. Then, if a user becomes a super user with many more badges, the fact that they completed onboarding is the least valuable context in their badges. Visually, it’d be better to have that listed last.
This would also likely visually diversify and add contextual value the leaderboard, with top users having different mixes of elusive badges listed first rather than the 5 easiest and then the +[#] roll up.
Potential solution:
- Control: Drag and drop hierarchy that works similar to ranks
- Front end: Badges display in order of hierarchy, not order awarded
(Note: I understand that badges and ranks are tools to accomplish two different gamification outcomes. However, the nature of gamifying badges will naturally make some badges of higher value than others. I’m not suggesting to redo or blur the line with rank, but rather set an information architecture for the badges that makes their use more effective/valuable)
