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thenewgreen  ·  4182 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski's shortcomings: What are they?

Any suggestions on how to encourage the use of a community tag?

I thought that once someone has earned the ability to give a badge and suggest community tags, they should receive a notification/email saying "congratulations you can now give a badge and administer community tags" -with a short description of what a badge and a community tag is.

My guess is that many users don't even know what a community tag is.





shotmaster0  ·  4181 days ago  ·  link  ·  

While on the topic of badges, is there anywhere that explains what one needs to do to get a badge. At the moment I have two dots out of eight but I have no idea how I got those or how I get more.

mk  ·  4181 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's intentional as we wouldn't want it to be easily gamed. It's based on an number of things, ranging from your activity, to other user's appreciation of it.

shotmaster0  ·  4181 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ah, that makes sense, thank you!

_refugee_  ·  4181 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't know how to community tag.

thenewgreen  ·  4181 days ago  ·  link  ·  

exactly. We need to fix that. For now, next to a post you will see a +#. Click on that and voila! you can add a community tag.

When someone has already added one you'll see Δ#. Click it if you don't think the current tag is appropriate and suggest a different one.

_refugee_  ·  4181 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oooh, what does the "+!" next to the top of your post do?

Oh god I nearly accidentally gave you a badge for this. No offense, TNG, but I'm going to hold onto that badge for something a little more significant.

PS. Thank you for elucidating on the community tag though!

thenewgreen  ·  4181 days ago  ·  link  ·  

ha. No offense taken, glad I could be of help.