Achievements & Ranks

[Brother Tyler]

ACHIEVEMENTS

 

This hobby community thrives on the contributions of its members, whether that is sharing hobby content or engaging with other members. One of the methods for incentivizing positive and constructive participation in the community is awarding badges to recognize members' contributions. Badges may be awarded automatically by the software when certain actions are performed, or they may be awarded manually by the staff for a variety of actions.

 

ACHIEVEMENT POINTS

 

In most cases, a member will earn 1 achievement point whenever they earn a badge that is automatically awarded. Some manually awarded badges may also garner 1 achievement point.

 

AUTOMATIC BADGES

 

The system tracks all of your content submissions and community engagement (giving/receiving reactions). When you reach certain thresholds, achievement badges are awarded. Most of these are awarded in a progression starting with a green badge for the first performance of the action, then blue, bronze, silver, and gold as the submissions/engagements increase. The green badge for the first performance lets you know that the type of action is one for which achievement badges will be awarded, but subsequent badges will require increasing repeats (non-linear) of the same performance. The progression is based on the "difficulty" of the action - actions that are common and easy to perform have a much higher progression than those that are uncommon and difficult. The gold badge is the final badge for the action, though you are still encouraged to continue performing that action.

 

Some actions only receive a gold badge, generally actions that members can only perform one time, such as creating a blog, or which are easy and repeatable, but which we don't want to see performed in a wasteful manner, such as creating a club.

 

Each of the actions and their badges are shown below. The badges are shown at 30x30 pixels, but you can click on each to see a larger version. The numbers in parenthesis after the action name indicate the progression (green/blue/bronze/silver/gold). Some of the achievements also have explanatory notes.

 

CREATING A BLOG (1)

 

CREATING A BLOG POST (1/5/25/125/625+)

    

 

CREATING A CALENDAR EVENT (1/5/10/50/100+)

    

 

CREATING A CLUB (1+)

 

CREATING A DISCUSSION TOPIC (1/10/100/500/1,000+)

    

 

CREATING A GALLERY ALBUM (1/5/10/15/20+)

    

 

DOWNLOADING A FILE FROM THE DOWNLOADS (1/5/10/25/50+)

    

 

GAINING FOLLOWERS (1/5/10/50/100+)

    

 

GIVING REACTIONS TO OTHER MEMBERS' CONTENT (1/100/9,000/36,500/109,500+)

    

 

HAVING CONTENT PROMOTED (1/5/15/35/75+)

    

 

HAVING A REPLY MARKED AS THE BEST ANSWER (1/5/10/20/50+)

    

 

REPLYING IN A DISCUSSION (1/10/100/500/1,000+)

    

 

SITE BANNER DISPLAYED (1/3/6/10/15+)

    

If a member submits a banner that is displayed as a banner of the month, they will earn achievements.

 

SUBMITTING AN ARTICLE AS THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR (1/3/7/15/31+)

    

These badges will be awarded to the original authors of articles, or to the Librarians that end up submitting such articles (when the original author is either no longer active or is unable/unwilling to perform the work).

 

SUBMITTING A REVIEW OF CONTENT (1/3/9/27/81+)

    

 

UPLOADING A FILE TO THE DOWNLOADS (1/5/10/25/50+)

    

 

UPLOADING AN IMAGE TO THE GALLERIES (1/10/100/500/1,000+)

    

 

VOTING IN A POLL (1/5/10/25/50+)

     

 

WELCOMING A NEW MEMBER (1/5/20/60/120+)

    

Members are awarded for posting replies in the + INTRODUCE YOURSELF + forum.

 

LONGEVITY BADGES

 

These are a subset of automatically awarded badges. These are awarded to members when they log in after comparing the current date to the member's join date. These are awarded at a member's 1st year, then every multiple of 5 years, as indicated by the red Roman numerals on the forehead of the skull:

  

 

MANUAL BADGES

 

Badges may also be awarded for special achievements that the system can't track and for which we can't create rules.

 

ARTICLE RECOMMENDATION (1/5/15/30/50+)

    

If a member recommends that content be submitted as an article and an article is ever published, the member that made the recommendation will earn an achievement and be awarded badges on the above progression. Like the automatically awarded badges, there will be a progression starting with a green badge for the 1st recommended article and culminating with a gold medal for reaching (and hopefully surpassing) a higher number of recommended articles. You can see more about recommending articles here.

 

BANNER OF THE MONTH (1/3/6/10/15+)

    

If a member submits a banner for the Banner of the Month challenge and that banner is subsequently selected for display at the top of the site, the member that submitted the banner will earn an achievement and be awarded badges on the above progression. Like the automatically awarded badges, there will be a progression starting with a green badge for the 1st selected banner and culminating at a gold medal for reaching (and hopefully surpassing) a higher number of selected banners. You can see more about the Banner of the Month challenge here.

 

CONTESTS/CHALLENGES

When contests and challenges are conducted within the community, we can award badges to participants and for those that earn special recognition. In general, we prefer to keep the number of badges for each contest/challenge at a maximum of 4.

 

 This badge was awarded to every participant in the Chronicles of the Legio challenge.

 

 This badge was awarded to everyone that completed the 12 Months of Hobby Challenge in 2019.

 

 This badge was awarded to everyone that completed the Boxing Day Bash in 2023.

 

FEATURED IN WARHAMMER VISIONS OR WHITE DWARF MAGAZINE

 

Members whose hobby content is featured in either of the official periodicals for the hobby may be awarded a badge recognizing this achievement.

 

GOLDEN DAEMON/SLAYER SWORD WINNER

   

 

LEGIO BOLTER & CHAINSWORD

 

Members that submit either a Legio "mini-me" (a miniature representing their persona in the Legio Bolter & Chainsword) or a picture of their Legio persona's honour shield will be awarded a badge recognizing their contribution.

 

LIBRARIAN ASSISTANCE IN ARTICLE DEVELOPMENT

      (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

 

      (8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18)

 

      (21, 24, 27, 30, 33, 36)

 

      (40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 60)

 

      (65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90+)

Librarians perform considerable work in assisting authors in the development, submission, and publication of their articles. These badges recognize (and incentivize) these efforts.

 

SITE STAFF MEMBERS

   

Members who volunteer to the community by performing work in a staff role will be awarded badges for each role that they perform in thanks for their commitment, time, and effort.

 

SPECIAL AWARDS

  

There are also badges that are awarded for special contributions to the community.

 

SUPPORTER BADGES

 

These are a subset of manually awarded badges, awarded to members that donate to the site (1 per year). Whether you donate a little or a lot, we appreciate your contribution to the financial upkeep of the site. These badges are awarded the first time you donate money during a calendar year. Below are some examples:

  

 

You can see all of the badges that a member has earned by clicking on the Recent Badges option in the Your Achievements block on their profile. 

 

Note that members may earn each badge only one time; and while the system allows for badges to be removed, it is our policy to never remove badges once earned (unless they are awarded in error).

 

RANKS

 

A member's Rank is different from their User Group, and is an indicator of their overall contributions to the community. Ranks do not confer any special authority or responsibility, simply letting others know roughly how much of an impact a member has had on the community. Ranks are based on the number of achievement points a member has earned and use a progression based on the Adeptus Astartes, specifically the imagery of the Legio Bolter & Chainsword.

 

 Aspirant (0 points)

 

 Novitiate (2 points)

 

 Battle-Brother (4 points)

 

 Veteran (8 points)

 

 Venerable Brother (13+ points)

 

The icon for a member's rank will appear in the lower left corner of their personal photo and will be displayed, along with the plain language name, in the Your Achievements block on their profile.

 

DISCIPLINE

 

Achievements and rank equate to imaginary Internet points, but they also represent a member's overall contributions to the site. Rank confers a certain level of prestige, so misbehaving (i.e., continually violating the community rules) will result in a loss of that prestige.

• Achievement badges will never be rescinded as part of disciplinary action - badges represent actual contributions to the community and will not be taken away from members.
• Achievement points may be removed as a result of repeat offenses (for the same offense type). Loss of achievement points may incur a reduction in rank.
• Achievement points may also be removed if a member is permanently banned.

You can see details here.