Today we'll be making some changes to the badges that you can earn as a contributor at Beta Labs. We're going to simplify the badges we give out and switch off the Top Reviewer, Bug Buster, and Innovator badges since they were proving difficult to maintain in a reliable and fair way. In short, we're adding two new badges and holding on to two old badges.
Active Contributor
Any Beta Labs community member can earn the Active Contributor badge by - you guessed it - being active on the site! Giving feedback, commenting to others' threads, and rating the helpfulness of others' posts all contribute to your reputation as an Active Contributor. You'll get the badge if your activity over the past six months is over a certain threshhold, and it's likely that if you have one of the three badges already mentioned you'll get this one too.
Top Contributor
Beta Labs community members earn the Top Contributor badge when they are active on the site AND valued by others. Helpful ratings on posts and comments as well as selections of posts by admins to the Editors' Picks contribute to your reputation as a Top Contributor. Like with the Active Contributor badge, you'll get the badge if your reputation over the past six months is over a certain threshhold. The reputation system is still pretty new, though, so we do expect many more Top Contributor badges to be given out in the coming months.
Contributor of the Month
To identify those that have been specially awarded for their valuable contribution.
Staff
To identify posts and responses from development teams.
As before these badges appear on any comment you make at the site and in your Profile. We hope these badges serve as a way for contributors and development teams to more easily identify and recognize those that are putting in time and effort to make Nokia Beta Labs a thriving community. So do continue to be active and remember to rate others' posts and comments as helpful if you want to give them some reputation points (or unhelpful if you want to discourage a particular kind of comment).
Lastly, a big thanks goes out to all our Active and Top Contributors!
- John, Community Facilitator @ Nokia Beta Labs
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