Call for Comment: User Medals & Awards
Which are good, which are crap, what should we add?
Monday, August 27, 2007 by Zoomba | Discussion: Virtual Communities
In our ongoing efforts to improve WinCustomize and make participating and contributing more fun and fulfilling for our skinners, we're looking at changing around how certain systems related to user reward work. The first one is the Medals system.
Currently automatically award Medals to users for hitting any number of milestones here on WinCustomize. We track who's the top skinner across the entire site, who is the best in any particular gallery, how many downloads are achieved etc. This information is mostly displayed on your personal page. It's a lot of data to sift through, and it's something we need to do a better job of presenting and highlighting.
To that end, we're looking for feedback on the current user medal system.
- What do you like about the current system?
- What do you dislike about the current system?
- What are your favorite awards?
- What are your least favorite awards?
- What awards do you think we should add?
- How do you think we could improve presentation and meaning of the awards?
Any feedback you have on this system is more than welcome. We'll be taking it into account when revising things, though we can't promise every suggestion will be implemented. This is the first step in a chain that we hope will lead to greater focus being placed on individual users, as well as a more equitable distribution of recognition.
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Reply #22 Tuesday, September 4, 2007 5:36 AM
The Screen Shotters work hard to Complament the Skinners in ther own way and come up with skins you would'nt think of. the blind of color, shape and textures put them in an ART all it's Own!
Reply #23 Thursday, September 13, 2007 4:33 PM
I'd also like a list of the people that I need to bribe in order to get them
Reply #24 Thursday, September 13, 2007 9:07 PM
I agree. I have no idea what the awards ARE, let alone how to get them.
Any awards given should be displayed outside the personal pages somewhere (Not everybody looks at personal pages). I think that would give the awards more meaning and the recipient more recognition for a job well done.
Reply #25 Monday, September 24, 2007 3:27 AM
# What do you like about the current system?
it's automatic
# What do you dislike about the current system?
Lake of informations about it (a way to get informations about them by mouse over on it would be cool
)# What are your favorite awards?
Wincustomize Subscriber <------- 1st
1000+ Downloaded Skins <------- 2nd (cause was the first i got and is meaning)
# What are your least favorite awards?
Top 1 ObjectBar2 Downloads <------- lol we are like 4 in that gallery and i have around a half of the skins available
# What awards do you think we should add?
troll of the year
troll of the month
troll of the day
# How do you think we could improve presentation and meaning of the awards?
hum a list of the awards and their mean would be cool yep
a way to get informations about them by mouse over on it would be cool
Reply #27 Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:53 AM
I've collected the feedback and we're going to hopefully get some development time to improve the awards system in the coming months. I can't give a definite timeline unfortunately as higher priority items may come up. But the medals and award system is slated for an update soon.
Thank you all for your thoughts and opinions, I'm headed in a completely different direction with the system now than I originally envisioned before posting the question for you all.
Reply #28 Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:15 PM
I'm quite sure that any changes that are made will be done with a sense of fairnes and a look at getting everyone involved.
A little bit whimsy would be nice, folks are just getting way to serious around here, if you know what I mean.
Reply #30 Wednesday, December 12, 2007 7:41 PM
Reply #31 Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:53 PM
I have Awards that i have no idea what they mean. Anyone?? is this thing on??
LOL
Reply #32 Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:24 AM
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Reply #34 Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:13 AM
Naw, I got to many of those when I was in the Military.
Reply #35 Wednesday, January 23, 2008 9:43 PM
First I think the awards should reflect the broad base of membership of this community and how contributions are made. What sort of criteria are relevant for a particular award is key to making awards meaningful. Along this line awards should be based in those areas where real contributions are made. Gallery based awards with a sidebar showing in the gallery who the current award holders are. Classes of gallery awards could be categorized as Ratings Leaders, Current Leaders, Veteran Leaders and Community Picks. Broad ranges of categories would work well in large galleries like Wallpapers and Blinds and would help to ensure a meaningful number of authors are represented.
Smaller galleries would only need 2 types of awards say ratings and current. Screen shots need to be recognized. In all cases award criteria should be spelled out and easy to find.
Also, people who contribute to the forums should be recognized with meaningful awards. It's a different type of effort to contribute here and takes some time to learn.
Those are my ideas. You still warching this Zoomba?
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Reply #21 Saturday, September 1, 2007 6:05 PM
It's hard to comment on something when you don't understand it. You can only ask for an explaination.