Badge feedback and ideas

[Monique vdB]

If you have any suggestions or feedback about our badges, or ideas for new badges, please put them here. Feel free to upvote suggestions you agree with too! 

[Kat Warner]

The monthly challenge badges are a lot of fun but:

• They are not listed on the badge page in date order
• The April 2019 badge doesn't have the month and year on it like the others
• I haven't seen a monthly badge challenge for May 2019 yet

[Monique vdB]

• I have a ticket open for that, it's annoying isn't it!
• We're moving away from the monthly challenges and doing general challenge badges instead. Some of them will be time limited but some of them will be ongoing. I'm aiming to keep releasing around one new badge a month, but the next planned one is for June 1. 
• We'll update the artwork on the old badges at some point so they look less weird!

[LarryBrock]

Hey! - I'm from Austin ... weird is our thing!  ;-)

[Jennifer_Weser]

Austin is indeed weird, however its a wickedly cool weird!!!

[Andy - PTC Redundant]

@Monique vdB ticket open?

"Hello, IT! Have you tried turning it off and on again...?"

[Kat Warner]

(I'm breaking these up into sections for make comments and voting easier/more targeted)

Under Role badges it would be nice to display if we:

• have Technical Sales Professional accreditation
• are an Authorised Atlassian Instructor
• --AUG member--

[Fabienne Gerhard]

There was a AUG member badge - but it's gone 

[Kat Warner]

AUG are also gone ... well in the process of rebranding as Community Events. Even when other people had AUG badges I did not manage to digitally snag one.

[Monique vdB]

I'd like to relaunch an Events Attendee badge of some type but it will be automated (the manual version didn't really work). There may even be a series based on the number of events you attend. Maybe add this as a separate comment @Kat Warner ?

I like those Role ideas. 

[Fabian A_ Lopez _Community Leader - Argentina_ Florida_ California_]

Also a ”best buddy” badge when they bring a friend to an event and introduced to ACE Leader 

Getting attendance is hard but this could help

@Monique vdB  please add sticker for this one on the resources inside the bag for events That Stephanie is preparing

[Carol Jones]

I don't think it would be awful if you had to recycle some of the badge ideas.  Several were just helping to get us more involved in the community discussions.

[Monique vdB]

Which were your favorite previous badges? I liked the discussion one too and will add it to my list. One based on group participation is coming up, which is based on the group challenge badge.

[Fabienne Gerhard]

I loved the badges where you had to leave your own comfort zone - which is of course a subjective feeling for everyone

I loved:

• Super Grouper in October 2018 because the groups were new to me and I met some super interesting new people in the groups
• March 2019 - that was really challeging for most of the people and for @Monique vdB I think too.

[Andy - PTC Redundant]

International Buddy Badge
Not sure how to regulate this, but the idea is that you make 10+ new acquaintances on community (i.e. not currently in network)

Master of <tool> Badges

Write 10 posts about a particular project and the Atlassian tool that was most impact-full for it and after getting 100 likes the badge is initiated. E.g.: "Master of Confluence"

Community Addict

Just can't quit logging in on the daily ! !

Earn monthly badges retrospectively
Although I understand why the monthly badges are time-framed but I think that commmunity users should be able to still earn them retrospectively.... for example, I miss some from the past 2yr and would LOVE to still get them if I could

[Kat Warner]

Logging in daily? You mean we are supposed to log out sometimes?

[Fabienne Gerhard]

Love the idea of International Buddy Badge @Andy - PTC Redundant and Master Badge!

[Andy - PTC Redundant]

@Kat Warner  : I think we're gonna need two badges now.... 
1) Community Addict - Light edition
2) Community Addict - 24/7 
;o)

@Fabienne Gerhard YEY ! Always good to have epic buddies and then earn a badge for it as a bonus!

[Fabienne Gerhard]

@Andy - PTC Redundant ❤️ can I nominate you yet? 

[Andy - PTC Redundant]

@Fabienne Gerhard Absolutely ! ! 😍👍 Hereby I confirm we have both nominated each other as our buddies!

We should force Monique and her IT buddy to already make us our own unique Buddy Badges 

[Fabienne Gerhard]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[Andy - PTC Redundant]

STICKER FREAK

Show us a picture of your laptop / notebook / etc. where the Atlassian stickers have been piled on!

[Jennifer_Weser]

I like this idea!!!!

[Kat Warner]

I'm still working on mine but I especially like Einstein's insight on dealing with bugs.

[Jennifer_Weser]

I found even more stickers in a bag - I have a problem.......

[Monique vdB]

I just got a new work laptop so I'm building up my collection!

[Fabienne Gerhard]

Love this idea @Andy - PTC Redundant - already see my IT department killing me - hope for stickers from @Max Foerster - K15t  next week

[Andy - PTC Redundant]

OMG.... these response are BRILLIANT ! ! Sadly I have to get on with working today plus an ACE tonight... BUT I shall respond at some point. Loving it.

[Sloan]

Hell yeah Stickers!

[Kat Warner]

I created a dedicated thread for these photos here.

[Andy - PTC Redundant]

GREAT IDEA @Kat Warner ! Then we don't take over @Monique vdBawesome feedback area. (Sorry Queen Mo, I feel bad for that!) :o(

[Kat Warner]

Events attendee badge - automated of course. Manually assigning badges is not Community Manager friendly.

[Kat Warner]

Oh - and now that I have reached level 8 we need more levels. Something like this:

[Monique vdB]

@Kat Warner I don't know, have you seen this post?

[Kat Warner]

I had not seen the amazing t-shirt. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

[Davin Studer]

There are a few who have somehow achieved the elusive, unacknowledged, non-existent level 9.

[Kat Warner]

*shock* I thought it was just Monique's special badge!

[antonio ferruz]

Mine is not looking bad ... still some spaces "available"

[Kat Warner]

A badge for each Atlassian University certification we have earned.

[Andy - PTC Redundant]

1 certifacte = Nerd Badge
2 certificates = Epic Nerd
3 Certificates = Ultra Nerd
4 Certiciates = Elite Nerd
Etc. Etc. !

[Monique vdB]

Okay here's my idea building off of @Andy - PTC Redundant's idea. What if we do a challenge similar to the Summit Scavenger Hunt. It could be called the Community Leader Challenge and users would have to do, say, 5-10 tasks set by 5-10 different leaders.  We could even do it multiple times, so we'd have Leader Challenges I, II, III, and so forth, giving new leaders a chance to participate, but new users could collect them all! 

Some challenges could be easier (like the sticker idea) and some could be harder (your ideas here). But it would be like an ongoing scavenger hunt. :)

[Kat Warner]

Scavenger hunts are good to get people exploring the online community and could definitely be a repeated event with different Community Leaders deciding on the list of what needs to be hunted for. I like it!

[carolyn french]

Love scavengers hunts too +1

I'll have to think up a few...

[Andy - PTC Redundant]

Love it !!

[Jack Brickey]

here are some badge ideas....

• CAB
• CAB Alumni
• in an effort to bring off-line into online, what about Community Event badges: x-Events planned, x-events attended, x-speaking engagements, etc. Maybe they already exist :-)
• Summit badges and or #-summits-attended

[Jack Brickey]

one more badge idea. The ultimate reward would be to have a badge named after you. I can certainly see the "Nic - lifer" badge which would be the rail-cat avatar. These badges would be very rare and come with cake. :-)

[Andy - PTC Redundant]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA ! ! ! ! ! I almost choked on my coffee.... ! ! !

"Nic - lifer"

HAHAHAHAHA!!!

I think this is a GREAT idea. :oD My favourite one so far.

@Monique vdB : Building on Jack's idea, I would like a FUN MAN ANDY Badge
People earn it through use of emoji's, posting of funny gif's, getting involved in all the fun blogs, making others laugh, community-related photoshopping.... etc. etc.

[Jennifer_Weser]

A "Fun Man Andy" badge, thats freckin awesome!!!

[Fabienne Gerhard]

Yeah „Fun Man Andy“ ❤️ - totally support this 

[Andy - PTC Redundant]

OK.... so I am gonna be super honest here and admit I'm cheating a bit. I have submitted badge ideas whereby I've already done loads of task towards them and will therefore get them easily (retrospectively) by dumping evidence on Queen Mo.

So therefore herewith one I will not get so easily through retrospective:

S P E A K E R    B A D G E !

Rules:

1) Give a talk at an official Atlassian event: AUG, Summit, AtlasCamp, etc.
2) Make sure you get awesome pictures of it in action
3) Write about it on community and post some of the pics

[LarryBrock]

Love this idea @Andy - PTC Redundant and thinking perhaps it can be divided into two flavors (like the Agile Badge).  One for ACE speakers and one for Summit/AtlasCamp speakers. This give incentive to present at an ACE where, based on my days as an ACE leader, speakers are frequently needed.  It would also acknowledge the greater effort to submit and prep for a conference talk.

@Monique vdB- love to hear you thoughts on this topic!

[Fabian A_ Lopez _Community Leader - Argentina_ Florida_ California_]

Alumni badges could be cool, all of us had a story despite the changes on programs and job...

Community Champion

AUG Leader

CAB Member

And also 

Summit Speaker

ACE Presenter (it is hard to find content in some areas)

[Mirek]

OK, I am giving my feedback but in order to get objective point of view I was not reading previous (already posted) post yet, so that if I see them means that someone else think same as me :)

First of all I would like to say that badges are great to have but soon it might be very hard to maintain that stuff. Especially if all need to be done manually :)

What I am missing in badges section:

* Some kind of sorting.. Currently badges appear and mostly appear in random order and are mixed up. It would be good to some how filter that out. Something like earned (not earned), next level.. by date.. category.. something. And put the very rare badges on the top like for example Community Leader or Community Content Award Winner.

* Ability to see who earned same badge as me. In other words it is great to see that I achieved something. but if I cannot get in touch with someone else that earned that too then I am missing something. Would be good to make earned badges clickable (send us to a different page) and similar to brand new feature (who liked the content), see who earned same badge (and the number of users)

* Link to a description of the badge (how to achieve it). That is one of the worst things. Every time a new badge is there people ask a question how to get it.. From the badges section there is no way to get a description (to a post, or just somewhere) where it is explained. I need to search for it in individual posts which is quite annoying over time

* Goal. Instead of "Not earned yet" it might say a number left to get it ... like "43 likes left to get it.. ". Thanks to that we do not need to search for that information.  In addition if someone reach for example 750 likes and there are no more grayed out badges, then not sure what is the next level (is it hidden or that is the end?).

What badges I would like to see in the future:

* A badge for very old members that help on online sites (forum, atlassian answers, questions.. ) or organize offline events already for years. There could be a goal to achieve it (example 5 years and older). It should be a very precious badge that show long term commitment.

Idea for a name: Community Dinosaur

* Looking a little bit on above badge I would like to see a Welcome badge that would include year when someone joined Community. Just like that as a first badge after creating the account (for new users) and manually set for older users than current community site based on Lithium.

Idea for a name: Welcome 2015, Welcome 2016, ..

* A set of badges that define who was attending a big Atlassian event (like summit). Thanks to that we can see without asking who was there. Combining this with the number #2 from section above "what I am missing .." is giving a opportunity to have a list of all participants from old events (which is hard to get without Mobile App) and additional benefit of information for us here (we know that if someone attend Summit 2019 on which something happened/was announced and no need to give him info about that again)

Idea for a name: Summit 2018, Developer Day 2019, ...

* If someone ever was a speaker at Summit or any other event - give him a badge! Simple as that.

Idea for a name: Event Speaker, Presenter, ..

* Some kind of Moderator badge. I saw that badge already somewhere so maybe it would be just a good way to reactive it. There are many people that are doing a lot of work on moderating posts (adding to spam, renaming, moving, removing tags,.. ) This is also a time consuming task overall and should be at least awarded with a badge.

Idea for a name: Community Moderator, Spam Killer, Security Guard..

* I was also thinking about ability to count our badges and also get a badge for that! ... If someone would reach specific level (like earn for example 50 badges) he get a special badge for that. This might motivate people to get more badges or it is a nice reward also for people that spend time and earn them day by day, month by month..

Idea for a name: Badge of badges, Badges Addict

* There is badge for number of likes but no badge for someone that is giving many likes (for example someone gave more than 500 likes).

Idea for a name: Like Giver, Liker

* Few other counting badges related to individual posts.. like for example a badge for very good answer/comment (more than X votes), long discussion (more than X replies in a single posts or having a long discussion that is taking few days), .. etc.

Idea for a name: Great Job, Good Answer, Long Discussion, ...

There are automatic badges, manual .. I was also thinking is there any technical way to allow badges gives by users.. Something that user can give to an user next to a like.. User can earn those badges many times and those could be counted on the badge section. Just an idea...

Might be more.. but that is all that I had in my head right now :) ..

[Jack Brickey]

good input Mirek! 

Very old member LOL that would be me! ;-) but i'm sure you mean 'years of Community Service' :-). This is a good one and would suggest it be a number of years thing...1, 2,3,4,...Nic

I like the concept of "Good Answer" and would like to take that thought one step further. It would be great if, as a Leader, we could 'tag' via button an answer as "Great Answer". The value of this, outside of badges, is that we could then use this to find that answer again and reference it when answering the same question someone asks later. This creates a repository of best in class answers to draw from rather than reinventing the wheel. And, back to badge context here, the original author of the Great Answer would get points for it being referenced. Yes I realize this is crossing into another dimension of complexity but @Test User KL can make it happen. :-)

[Andy - PTC Redundant]

Epic input @Mirek !! The "what I am missing" is especially good!

"1,2,3,4... Nic"
HAHAHAHAH! @Jack Brickey : you are hilarious !

[Mirek]

Definitively I mean only years of community service :) .. Concept of Good Answer is something also that could help find A+ answers/posts/feedback which is not promoted heavily right now. There should be a special reward for number of best A+ posts. And agree that Leaders should get option to mark those posts.

[Kevan Lin]

@Jack Brickey -- how could you put me on the spot like that? 

I do like the line of thinking when it comes to "best in class answers" degrees of how well an answer was provided. Totally agree with you that it's a mixed bag with regards to how can I figure out which is the best answer for me and my situation.  

[Gamegenorator]

Where do you get the stickers? I'm confused...

[Monique vdB]

@Gamegenorator at Atlassian events, typically! Do you have a local group?

[Monique vdB]

@Gamegenorator I should add there are Trello events as well.

[Gamegenorator]

@Monique vdB Local Group? What's that?

[Andy - PTC Redundant]

@Gamegenorator :
Official events like Summit & Open:

https://www.atlassian.com/company/events/summit

https://www.atlassian.com/company/events/open

Atlassian User Groups:

https://aug.atlassian.com/

Other Atlassian related events:

https://www.meetup.com/

Being friends with people like @Fun Man Andy 

[Fun Man Andy]

@Andy - PTC Redundant - indeed ! ! 🤩🥇👏

[LarryBrock]

Love this @Andy - PTC Redundant !!!

[Andy - PTC Redundant]

Hahaha....! Nice one @LarryBrock ! 😎👍