New Achievement Feature now open

[Mike]

Source Achievement feature now open

 

A new addition to Soul Source, the Achievement feature

Intro

Am sure most of you out there are aware of our 'reputation' feature, where members can 'react' to members posts, and results were/are displayed in various places on site.

Well this feature is similar but just takes things that bit further.  Now as well as members giving other members reputation points by 'reactions', the Achievement feature can do similar but with a wider scope/range. It can automatically clock members actions/posts and then use them as the base for working out the members new 'forum rank' rather than the previous ways of using reputation points or post totals.

 

Make up of the Achievement feature

Three main parts of the feature

'Rules'-   Rules are the 'actions' that are noted.  A whole range of actions can be noted and then highlighted. Basic ones like, members hitting the 5-year anniversary point, and normal day to day forum uses, but also the system as well can clock more 'soul source' oriented actions as well for our more bespoke features such as the Sales forums, Event Guide, Gallery, Freebasing and so on. 

'Rank' - long-time members may remember we used to use something like this a while back, which was then based on the number of posts the member had made. Basically, it just a method of quickly shows the members current forum status now based on the rules above

'Badges' - A method to indicate both to the member and also other members, a summary and highlights of the members actual site actions. If a member hits a landmark of say 500 comments, a badge marking this point may be automatically added to the members account. It can go beyond this, 'badges' can be given to indicate 'traders', 'promoters'. 'reviewers', 'attenders' actions and so on. All which give a summary of the members use of the site which may also be useful to members when using the various features such as sales, events etc,

 

All the above is done automatically by the system, once it's done the info generated will be displayed in various places through out the site as per below...

 

Profile

A bar at the top of the Profile page shows the rank, recent badges, reputation score and community answers total

 

Badges Page

Clicking on the recent badges box on the profile will take you to this page, where a more detailed look at ranks and the members badges displays

 

Hover Card - Just mouse over a members avatar to see the below

 

 

Forum post and member bar

The rank icon is attached to the members avatar on forum posts and the rank shows in the drop down menu as per below

 

Summary - as said the feature is now fully open, but no doubt some tweaks may be needed in the first few days/weeks to reflect the bespoke features and the way source site gets used, however it will now run automatically in the background.  

 

Questions / Feedback - as always feedback and queries are most welcome, just use the comments below

 

 

[Dobber]

Yeah great feature,it shows im now in the top 3% of all time members! It must be my insight  !

Congrats soul source on a great addition

[Lionelonthevinyl]

I'm classed as "long time"....made the wife chuckle.....Rob

[Winsford Soul]

Wow. I'm in the top 1% on soul source. In highly esteemed company 

Thank you

Edited September 17, 2021 by Winsford Soul

[Algsoul]

vetaran   does that make me a old git

[Chalky]

1% veteran....feel it as well today LOL

[Leicester Boy]

Great idea mike. Judging by previous posts its nice to see some of the top contributors in the top 1%. The knowledge of some on here is truly amazing.

[Baz Atkinson]

Top 1 per cent and Veteran I’m tickled because I was off line from 2011 till 2016, it’s nice to see some of the people who have made huge contributions getting a bit recognition . 

[Kathryn Magson]

14 hours ago, Algsoul said:

vetaran   does that make me a old git

I'm a veteran too - another old git! 

[Rick Scott]

32 minutes ago, Kathryn Magson said:

I'm a veteran too - another old git! 

yea me too in a  fast growing club

yea this is a good idea that seems to be doing well

well done the Source Team