Ranks, Levels, Badges and Reactions: How you can earn points, badges, ranks and levels on community

VioletChepil

Hello everyone,
To give credit to engaged members and experts on the Fing Community, we’ve included a system of Ranks and Badges. Here’s how to earn points, badges and ranks on the community. As we evolve we’ll be adding more ranks and badges to achieve for community experts! Stay tuned. Also, I welcome any suggestions/improvements in the discussion below.


PROMOTED CONTENT - NEW BONUS: Promoted content will get an extra 10 points! Admins will be promoting GREAT Questions and Discussions on the Devices/Security and Network Troubleshooting/Connectivity categories.
This is because we need more content in these categories - questions and discussions - to help the community grow.

Ranks
Ranks are special classifications of users based on points and statuses accumulated on the Community. When you get the required amount of points from badges and reactions you’ll move up through the levels.

• Level 1: 0 points
  
• Level 2: 50 points
  
• Level 3: 100 points
  
• Level 4: 500 points
  
• Level 5: 1000 points
  
• Level 6: 2000 points
  
• Level 7: 4000 points
  
• Level 8: 8000 points
  

Badges
Here are the badges that you can earn on the community. You can earn them by taking actions (i.e. uploading a profile picture), receiving positive reactions to your posts and answers, commenting on posts and answering questions.

• Photogenic: 10 points - given after uploading a profile photo
  
• Name Dropper: 5 points - given when you use @username to bring another user into your post. This encourages dialogue on the community.
  
• Founder: 50 points - given to Fing community Founders who completed helpful tasks to get the community launched
  
• Member of the Month: 50 points - given to a new member each month who has accumulated the most points through posts, discussions, answers and comments.
  

Agrees/Awesomes/Likes
You’ll earn badges for receiving certain numbers of “Agrees”, “Awesomes” or “Likes” on your posts, comments or answers. You’ll also get bonus points.

• 5 Agrees/Awesomes or Likes: 5 points
  
• 25 Agrees/Awesomes or Likes: 5 points
  
• 100 Agrees/Awesomes or Likes: 10 points
  
• 250 Agrees/Awesomes or Likes: 25 points
  
• 500 Agrees/Awesomes or Likes: 50 points
  
• 1000 Agrees/Awesomes or Likes: 50 points
  
• 1500 Agrees/Awesomes or Likes: 50 points
  
• 2500 Agrees/Awesomes or Likes: 50 points
  
• 5000 Agrees/Awesomes or Likes: 100 points
  
• 10000 Agrees/Awesomes or Likes: 100 points
  

Comments
You’ll earn points for comments on posts:

• First comment: 2 points
  
• 10 comments: 5 points
  
• 100 comments: 10 points
  
• 500 comments: 15 points
  
• 1000 comments: 20 points
  
• 2500 comments: 50 points
  
• 5000 comments: 50 points
  
• 10,000 comments: 100 points
  
• 25,000 comments: 150 points
  
• 50,000 comments: 200 points
  

Answers
You’ll earn points for providing great answers to questions:

• First answers: 2 points
  
• 5 answers: 3 points
  
• 25 answers: 5 points
  
• 50 answers: 10 points
  
• 100 answers: 15 points
  
• 250 answers: 20 points
  
• And each level reached afterwards is awarded +20 points
  

Reactions
You can react to posts to give a user points. Here are the reactions that you can use and the points that they give users.

• Like: 1 point - general approval of a post, answer or comment
  
• Agree: 1 point - you share the same viewpoint as the poster
  
• Promote: 5 points - promoted posts are awarded 5 points - only admins can promote posts for now
  
• Awesome: 1 point - amazed with a post
  

Edited: 10 October 2019

fedeb000

How we can see how many points do we have? or that is not possible? 

Luca

Nice and clearly set out

Gidster

@fedeb000 you can see the points you've earned on your profile page: https://community.fing.com/profile/fedeb000

yozh

This is cool!

VioletChepil

@yozh yes I love it! And more to come too. 

CryptoMinky

Where should I look to see my badges?

VioletChepil

CryptoMinky said:

Where should I look to see my badges?
You can look here on your profile to see them! 

https://community.fing.com/profile/YOURNAME 

Pooh

How long does it take for the Founder's badge to show up? I think I completed all three tasks, but I will admit a pot of honey did catch my eye as I went on and I may have been distracted in the process...

VioletChepil

Hello @Pooh bear and nice to meet you finally!!! I've actually just processed yours. Exceptionally because of the criteria, I've got to process these myself by acting as an automation tool and so I try to be as speedy as possible!  

Pooh

@VioletChepil thanks! You are awesome! 

Stratt3000

@VioletChepil and all Fingsters, keep up the great work!

VioletChepil

@Stratt3000 Thanks a LOT for helping us get this thing started!! 

Pooh

Stratt3000 said:

@VioletChepil and all Fingsters, keep up the great work!

Teamwork there! Thanks again @VioletChepil for getting this place off the ground. So nice to help build up something new...

VioletChepil

Hi all, as so many of you are moving up through the levels and badges so quickly, I've updated the above post to reflect higher levels/badges that can be reached. I've also added in more details about promoted content and how points are given for that too. Let me know any feedback in the comments! 

Larisss

I want to know morw

VioletChepil

Thanks @Larisss just let me know or ask any new question about the community badges and points system here!
https://community.fing.com/categories/welcome

Notta_Donkey1

How do I upload a profile pic?

VioletChepil

Thanks @Notta_Donkey
You can try this option here, but I see you've already got your badge for changing picture.

TOMMYD

Hello violet, I love this place! Thanks for the great introduction!

VioletChepil

@TOMMYD great to hear and WELCOME!

fuzzyhans

Is it possible to opt out of the badges & levels?  Or at least turning off the related emails.  Not against others enjoying it, but it's not my cup o tea, and I get enough emails on a daily basis.

VioletChepil

@fuzzyhans there isn't any way to opt out! But you can review your notification preferences over here:
https://community.fing.com/profile/preferences/fuzzyhans

rooted

It's an interesting community and the badges and points system is a cool feature. How does one obtain the beta tester moniker?

Robin

rooted said:

It's an interesting community and the badges and points system is a cool feature. How does one obtain the beta tester moniker?

The beta testing is open to all now so the badge/role won't make a difference.

rooted

https://community.fing.com/discussion/comment/10161#Comment_10161

I see, no worries. So it's now an open beta, that's awesome. I wish I had known that, I would have been using it.