Introducing Community Badges
Hello photography enthusiasts!
I’m Karolina, the Customer Success Manager at Capture One. This community is the perfect place to exchange ideas, share your work, and connect with like-minded individuals and I’m thrilled to be part of it!
To acknowledge the achievements and contributions of our wonderful forum members, we have introduced community badges.
These are a simple way to recognize and celebrate the efforts of our members, and they provide an opportunity to showcase your expertise and stand out from the crowd. Here are the badges on offer:
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'Up-and-comer': awarded to new members of the community who have wasted no time getting involved in discussions
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'Top Commenter': awarded to users who contribute most to discussions in the community
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'Conversation Starter': awarded to members of the community who actively create posts and start discussions
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'Moderator': a member of the Capture One team
The awarded badges will appear underneath your name in your profile and when you post.
Which leads me on to the next thing… profiles!
You may have noticed that you all now have a public user profile. This means:
- You can follow each other to stay up to date with posts, comments, and other activity in the community
- It’s possible to create a bio and add more information about yourself
- You’ll be able to stay up to date with the topics and people that mean most to you in the forum
Simply click on your name anywhere in the forum to be taken to your profile or use the menu in the top-right corner of the page, where your profile picture is.
We hope that these small changes can help to create a supportive and collaborative environment where photographers can grow, learn, and succeed together.
I recommend that you go into your profile and set your name to prevent your comments/posts from displaying with “FirstName LastName” – you’re much more likely to get a response if you set a username and profile picture.
I look forward to seeing the new badges next to your names and continuing to see the amazing contributions you make to the community.
This is just the beginning, and we hope to bring you many more improvements in the coming weeks and months.
Best regards,
Karolina
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Permanently deleted userUtterly terrible idea - it infantilises the forum into a puerile popularity contest, where whining and other BS gets upvoted by other whiners and BS merchants, regardless of actual value to the community; and where quantity is valued over quality.
These are a simple way to recognize and celebrate the efforts of our member
They do no such thing on any other forum I've been involved in that uses this approach. "Standing out from the crowd" is an irrelevance, not a benefit: who the Hell is going to be impressed by a "Top Commenter" badge?
For Chrissake, don't do this. It is not an "improvement". Proper posting rules, moderation, and active Spam suppression will be an improvement, but this is just childish.
On the subject of enforced rules: back in the days of forum.phaseone.com, we had Rule 10:
Do not post a message merely to blow off steam or otherwise get something off your chest. This is a support, user to user help and resource area, if you have something to take up with a dealer then take it up with a dealer, if you have something to take up with Phase One then please take it up with Phase One.
Please: bring it back. Change "Phase One" to "Capture One", and bring it back.
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Well Keith, why do you write your objection in this public forum then. In the spirit of rule 10, if you have something to take up with Capture One then please take it up with Capture One, and I would like to add: stop whining here.
You see what's happing here? You took the role of those "offenders" you would normally critizise, and I took your role of the unpolite "defender". I think communication is very multifacted, please don't be angry with others even if you don't like what they write.
On the topic of the badges, I actually don't care, but I don't think it will impose too many childish posts. I agree with your other suggestions (posting rules, moderation, and active Spam suppression) and would like to add that Firstname Lastname should be forbidden by the system, every user should have a unique name (e.g. "Firstname123 Lastname") so that indivual posters can be distingished from another.
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Keith R Thanks for the feedback! I can completely get where you're coming from. As this is a manual process for now, there will be some digging around to see whether someone is being helpful or behaving in the manner you describe.
We will be getting your opinion, along with as many other members of the community as possible, on how we can improve the community. Personally, I'm against too many rules and heavy moderation (spam is different, I hope you can already see that there's significantly less spam on the forum these days) but I remember this rule well from the Phase One days :) though I don't seem to remember it putting too many people off...
BeO It's clear that more moderation and spam issues are high priorities for members of the community (and for me) - I also agree on the naming thing, but there's little we can do to force people to change their name in their profile. I will look more into this, though.
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Thanks Jack.
At least a Feature Request for the Zendesk software?
If I am not mistaken when recalling my observation, SPAM post often use the Firstname Lastname identity. Maybe these human or chat bot spammers would adapt, if you found a way to enforce a name change, but maybe it could serve this additional purpose at least for a while.
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