The new quarterly leaderboard is here!

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If you have eagle eyes, you may have already noticed that the leaderboards have changed! We now have two views for you: Quarterly and All time. The Quarterly leaderboard resets on the first of January, April, July, and October. So what you are seeing today are the points earned since July 1.

Congratulations to @Laura Holton _Valiantys_ who is K-I-L-L-I-N-G this leaderboard! Also some familiar names on top like @Kishan Sharma @Nic Brough -Adaptavist- @Hana Kučerová and @Alex Koxaras _Relational_... and I'll let you all discover the rest for yourself. 

We will have ways to reward users to reach the top of the leaderboard each quarter. If you want to guarantee you will be in the first batch of users to earn a reward, make sure you earn at least 5000 points on this quarterly leaderboard by the end of the month.   

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A new leaderboard and new challenges are coming October 1. 🏆 And remember, this is a beta. So your feedback and suggestions are, as always, welcome. 

[Kishan Sharma]

Thank you @Monique vdB this is great, glad to see my name in there and Congratulations to the top 5s 😊

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

Nice addition @Monique vdB! To be honest I was struggling to get close to the top, but with names like Nic, Jack, Brant, Laura and others, it's impossible to do that :D Those guys will lead for a long time in the community.

Congratulations to everybody for being an active member of this community!

Congratulations to you Monique and the rest of the team, for keeping this community engaged with all the gamification additions you bring in!

[Huwen Arnone]

Great work @Alex Koxaras _Relational_, @Kishan Sharma, @Laura Holton _Valiantys_, @Hana Kučerová, and of course @Nic Brough -Adaptavist-🤩🙌✔ That's inspiring! :)

[Suvradip Paul]

Kudos to @Laura Holton @Kishan Sharma @Nic Brough _Adaptavist_ @Hana Kučerová and @Alex Koxaras for making into quarterly board top 5 !!

Thanks for sharing the update and encouraging words @Monique vdB ! One small query, are you going to reward on basis of only this quarterly criteria or do you have anything planned for yearly too? 

[Laura Holton _Valiantys_]

Oh wow this is so exciting 😄 thanks @Monique vdB!!

Here's to everyone actively involved in the Community 🙌 all the help, knowledge sharing, guidance, support, fun and just the general community vibe here is absolutely amazing to see and be involved in 👏 It's just great to be a part of it!

[John Funk]

Congrats everyone and thank you for your hard work!!

[Monique vdB]

@Suvradip Paul I am working on some ideas for both :) 

[Monique vdB]

@Alex Koxaras _Relational_ yes! you hit the nail on the head - the all-time leaderboard is great but hard for people to catch up if they joined late or what have you. This way everyone starts fresh from time to time, but all-time effort is still recognized. 

[Jack Brickey]

Congratulations to all the quarterly-leaders!

Very well deserved with awesome contributions. Keep up the good work out there.

[Vero Rivas]

CONGRATULATIONS to all !!! 

[G subramanyam]

Hi @Monique vdB this is a new welcoming Beta addition. I have few queries from this post:

1. "make sure you earn at least 5000 points on this quarterly leaderboard by the end of the month" >> Their are leader's who already have that score in the "quarterly leaderboard", I'm one among them :) So, is the badge enabled only on Oct-1?

2. "In the Kudo program board it is mentioned the top 25 or who achieves 5000 in the quarter before Oct 1st". Again, are the 500 points for this badge be enabled before Oct 1st? If yes, any tentative dates?

And congratulations to all the top 25 leaders0 as on date and time of this post :)

[Monique vdB]

@G subramanyam absolutely! You already have 5000 points, so you will get the badge for sure. I am going to award the badges on October 1 so they count towards the next quarterly leaderboard. So if you are at the top you get a bit of a head start for next time. 

[Kishan Sharma]

Hi @Monique vdB Can you please confirm if Peer_kudos are calculated in the quarterly leaderboard ? If yes, what is its significance.

[Monique vdB]

@Kishan Sharma yes peer kudos are included in the quarterly leaderboard! Later today I'll publish the top 25 along with their final points and award the Leader of the Pack badge :) 

[Kishan Sharma]

Hi @Monique vdB  I personally think that Peer Kudos should not be part of the Global/Quarterly Leaderboard and it should be calculated purely based on the kudos points received by completing challenges.

For example, one can easily get Kudos from colleagues by asking them to send them 1000 Kudos everyday and get to the top of the leaderboard without any extra efforts, which is unfair to others.

I would suggest you to publish a leaderboard without peer kudos for everyone to see the contrast.

@All other members, please like this comment if you agree with my view, as a vote for this suggestion ;)

[Jack Brickey]

@Kishan Sharma , while what you suggest is possible I really do not see this as an issue. There are a number of holes with the kudos program but the team is doing a great job at resolving them. Keep in mind that while we, as Members or even CLs, cannot see the details of where someone’s points come from the Atlassian Community Team can monitor for such behavior and take action if warranted. Knowing most of the folks that are at the top of the list and observing their activities first hand, I’m confident the positions are well deserved. Finally, the Peer Kudos is limited to 100pts at a time and there is a limit of how many awards can be given.

[Kishan Sharma]

@Jack Brickey thank you for your reply. 

I must agree and appreciate the team who has developed this program and no wonder they are doing an excellent job.

Have you seen this thread by any chance ? Going by that example - one can easily send 1000 kudos to another member. ( 100 kudos x 10 times per day).

I think if you visit someone's profile, and go to Kudos tab, you can see the Kudos feed where you can check who has recently gave that person Kudos and to whom that person has given kudos to. I hope that feed is correct and gives you insights about the peer kudos given/received.

If @Monique vdB can instantly share a leaderboard (before and after - without peer kudos) for Q4, it will bring more clarity as to what I am trying to convey here.

[Monique vdB]

@Kishan Sharma that is definitely a bug; 10 kudos per week is the intended behavior and we are working on fixing it!  

In my experience, users gaming the system in the way you are describing are very obvious and I can easily wipe out the points from this kind of activity. If you see anything that looks suspicious to you, you can always reach out to me directly at communitymanagers@gmail.com and I'll be happy to take a look.

Unfortunately I can't easily share a leaderboard that splits out the two types of points but I will look into it. That would be a good thing to look at just to see if anything looks suspicious. But as Jack says I recognized the names of the top 25 and everyone on that list is very trustworthy to me :) 

[Kishan Sharma]

Thank you @Monique vdB for responding so quick. Even if you fix the bug, by giving 1000 kudos per week, one can receive 12000 Kudos per quarter without completing any challenges.

I will definitely flag if I come across any such suspicious activity. Also as members we cannot keep monitoring who has received peer kudos and when, so it gets difficult at times, unless you visit profiles of other members to see what's happening. 

I understand that you can't share the leaderboard, which is perfectly fine. I am sure that community managers will look at it and find it out themselves and yes, no doubt that the top 25s are trustworthy. Just want to make sure that there is fair play, nothing else. :)

[Kishan Sharma]

Hi @Monique vdB I have sent you an email with my findings. Please do take a look. Thank you!