Medals (community input encouraged)

Medals (community input encouraged)

bart's picture

So, one thing that will definitely be a part of the OGA 2.0 experience is the Medal system.  Medals are well-liked, but they have certain shortcomings that I'd really like to address.  Here's what to expect:

  • If you have a higher version of a medal, it will supersede the lower versions in the medals block on the main page.  That is, if you have 2D Art Contributor (Silver), then you won't see 2D Art Contributor (Bronze), even though you still technically have it.
  • A page that lists all of the medals along with (possibly) your progress toward each.
  • A page for each medal that lists who's earned it.
  • A block that shows who recently earned medals.
  • New medals, including, but not limited to:
    • Medals for entering and winning the Weekly Challenge
    • Medals for popularity (the total number of Favorites your art has received)

If you have more ideas for things we could do with medals, I'd love to hear them.  In general, the idea is to award medals to people for doing things that we want to encourage them to do, so we can recognize active community members.  Any more medals we come up with should follow along that vein.

Bart