Call for Comment: User Medals & Awards

Which are good, which are crap, what should we add?

Published on August 27, 2007 By Zoomba In Virtual Communities

In our ongoing efforts to improve WinCustomize and make participating and contributing more fun and fulfilling for our skinners, we're looking at changing around how certain systems related to user reward work. The first one is the Medals system.

Currently automatically award Medals to users for hitting any number of milestones here on WinCustomize. We track who's the top skinner across the entire site, who is the best in any particular gallery, how many downloads are achieved etc. This information is mostly displayed on your personal page. It's a lot of data to sift through, and it's something we need to do a better job of presenting and highlighting.

To that end, we're looking for feedback on the current user medal system.

What do you like about the current system?
What do you dislike about the current system?
What are your favorite awards?
What are your least favorite awards?
What awards do you think we should add?
How do you think we could improve presentation and meaning of the awards?

Any feedback you have on this system is more than welcome. We'll be taking it into account when revising things, though we can't promise every suggestion will be implemented. This is the first step in a chain that we hope will lead to greater focus being placed on individual users, as well as a more equitable distribution of recognition.

Comments (Page 2)

vStyler

on Aug 30, 2007

Not something awards should be based on.

Then it would make sense then that the download awards be based by application category.

Lantec

on Aug 30, 2007

Then it would make sense then that the download awards be based by application category.

Then the winner in Windowblinds would always be Adni. XP Pro III. 650,000+ downloads

A categorical "Skinner of the Month" would be the way to go with NEW skins less than 30 days old qualifying and no updates allowed.

Bash2cool

on Aug 30, 2007

I think it should be like this:

"Best skin of the week"
"Best skin of the Month"

"Best Bootskins"....Bash2cool

ZubaZ

on Aug 30, 2007

"Best" is hard. Most highly rated/most downloaded might work much better.

bilbo1930

on Aug 30, 2007

eh... and dont forget: The Best Moderator of the Month

GH33DA

on Sep 01, 2007

I think the biggest concern has been address already...."What IS the current system?"

It's hard to comment on something when you don't understand it. You can only ask for an explaination.

JMSpeakman

on Sep 04, 2007

can we get some recognition?

The Screen Shotters work hard to Complament the Skinners in ther own way and come up with skins you would'nt think of. the blind of color, shape and textures put them in an ART all it's Own!

2of3

on Sep 13, 2007

So Zoomba, can you list out the awards and what they mean?

I'd also like a list of the people that I need to bribe in order to get them

Xiandi

on Sep 13, 2007

I've notice that everybody that replied to this post so far have been members for a while. I'm a noob. I've only been a member since July 8th.

So Zoomba, can you list out the awards and what they mean?

I agree. I have no idea what the awards ARE, let alone how to get them.

Any awards given should be displayed outside the personal pages somewhere (Not everybody looks at personal pages). I think that would give the awards more meaning and the recipient more recognition for a job well done.

Quentin94

on Sep 24, 2007

# What do you like about the current system?

it's automatic

# What do you dislike about the current system?

Lake of informations about it (a way to get informations about them by mouse over on it would be cool

)

# What are your favorite awards?

Wincustomize Subscriber <------- 1st
1000+ Downloaded Skins <------- 2nd (cause was the first i got and is meaning)

# What are your least favorite awards?

Top 1 ObjectBar2 Downloads <------- lol we are like 4 in that gallery and i have around a half of the skins available

# What awards do you think we should add?

troll of the year
troll of the month
troll of the day

# How do you think we could improve presentation and meaning of the awards?

hum a list of the awards and their mean would be cool yep

a way to get informations about them by mouse over on it would be cool

RomanDA

on Sep 24, 2007

Zoomba,

Its been a while, any updates?

Zoomba

on Sep 25, 2007

I've collected the feedback and we're going to hopefully get some development time to improve the awards system in the coming months. I can't give a definite timeline unfortunately as higher priority items may come up. But the medals and award system is slated for an update soon.

Thank you all for your thoughts and opinions, I'm headed in a completely different direction with the system now than I originally envisioned before posting the question for you all.

Philly0381

on Sep 25, 2007

Appreciate the feedback from you Zoomba.

I'm quite sure that any changes that are made will be done with a sense of fairnes and a look at getting everyone involved.

A little bit whimsy would be nice, folks are just getting way to serious around here, if you know what I mean.

eieio

on Dec 12, 2007

Any word on this?

2of3

on Dec 12, 2007

I think I tried to resurrect this thread a while back..... I'm curious too!

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