Suggest a Trophy

I would like the Camping Babble trophy system to start playing a more prominent role on the website. I think that in order to do this we need to have more fun and interesting (or pizzazz as one member put it) trophies!! I have already added quite a few however I am always open to suggestions so if you have any ideas for any type of new trophy please post them here.

I've gotten some nice looking rank badges made by a talented graphic designer (not me, haha) which I would like to use as trophies. They are clearly inspired by military decorations but I think they would be suitable here in the same way that Boy/Girl Scouts have their rankings as do other outdoors oriented organizations. Do you guys have any ideas for the ranks to assign for different amounts of posts?

 

number of posts is usually the case. in my opinion thats too many badges for just posts. it could be like 10 badges in total. 10 posts, 50, 100, 250, 500, 1000, 5000, 10000 etc

 

When you say for just posts are you talking about the "posting" category of the trophies including the likes and posts? I wanted to have some trophies to reward likes also because it promotes making higher quality and relevant posts and not simply just spamming posts to up the post count.

 

That is an interesting idea but like you said I don't know how I would handle giving out these types of awards. I see a lot of forums give out user titles based on the number of posts but again that doesn't really guarantee a person's expertise. Some of the awards we have are assigned manually and some are assigned automatically based on certain criteria. Maybe it could work by giving a person an award if they make a certain number of posts in a particular section of the forum?

 

Well that is what suggestions section is for essentially--brainstorming ideas for the site. Whether or not the get implemented in the end is another story.

And yeah, I can tell you like it here by your frequent visits

Also, I actually wanted to use some badges with a similar style to the ones you posted originally because I think they really capture the camping theme. However, I found that it was too difficult to get them to look halfway decent at small sizes.

 

How about some fun and goofy badges that will spread laughter and good humor. Whether your an expert or a just learning camper, getting any badge or trophy, on site is an encouragement to come back.

 

I like the idea of having goofy and fun trophies. What criteria would you suggest we award them for?

There are already quite a few I think (such as the ones for being a member for a certain period of time, sharing photos, and provoking debates) but I would always like to add a few more.

 

Most good humored comment or worse camping disaster, funny accident or wildlife encounter, very best lost story or hiking tale. Etc.....

 

Hmm, I like that idea quite a lot. Especially since those things are more camping specific compared to most of the ones we have for things like post count, likes, join date, etc.

 

No, they don't start over each year. It is just that I had messed with the trophy system a bit and needed to reset it so that was why you got new notifications for all your old trophies.

 

Lessons in humility, bring big smiles when all trophies are magically restored.

 

An interesting suggestion. Do you mean sort of like what we have now with some of the manually awarded trophies except do it automatically?