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If you’ve been a long-time member of SAP Community, you’ve probably accumulated several badges over the years. Even newer members may have earned the basic one-time badges available on our current platform – such as the badge for taking our tutorial and the various badges awarded for a first-time action (e.g., replying, leaving a kudo). Members haven’t, however, been able to receive ongoing recognition for repeated activity.
That will change starting tomorrow (Tuesday, August 19).
With our previous gamification system, we rewarded badges for posting quality content, providing helpful answers, and more – giving members the opportunity to earn multiple awards for frequent participation. (As an example, take a look at my list of badges – which pales compared to the accomplishments of veterans who have been around since the earliest days of our online community!) As of August 19, we’re bringing this recognition back, starting with progression badges based on the number of answers accepted as solutions.
If you like answering questions (and you’re gifted at helping other members find solutions to their problems), then you’ve probably already received the first badge in this new series – by giving an answer that was accepted as a solution. Now you can earn an additional four badges, depending on the number of solutions you provided in Q&A.
We’ll be rewarding people retroactively, so depending on your Q&A activity and length of community membership (going back to previous community platforms), you may get one or more badges tomorrow.
Not sure of your numbers? You can find them in your community content area. After logging in, click on the person icon in the upper right of any community page, then select “My content.”
You’ll see your total number of answers in the Private Stats section at the bottom of your “My content” area.
But remember: an answer is not a solution. An answer becomes a solution when someone accepts it as the correct answer to a question. You’ll find your total number of solutions in the gray box at the top of your “My content” page.
So in this example, this member should expect to get all four of the new solutions badges. With 93 solutions, he has achieved the necessary criteria for the second badge (2 solutions), third badge (5 solutions), fourth badge (25 solutions), and the fifth and final badge in this progression series (50 solutions). (I sure hope he’s reading this, so he won’t wonder what’s going on when he sees four badge notifications tomorrow.)
If you are expecting badges, and you're not seeing them yet, try logging out and in again. That should update the badge list in your “My content” page.
With this new badge set, SAP Community is once again acknowledging the awesome members who regularly contribute quality content. And we’re not stopping here! In the near future, we plan to introduce other progression sets. We don’t want to give away too much information just yet – we thought it would be fun to keep things a surprise – but we do encourage you to get more active, as you may find yourself receiving bigger badge payoffs very soon.
Make sure to monitor the What’s New section for announcements about the new progression badge sets as they become available. In the meantime, if you frequently participate in the community, keep up the good work. Or if you’re more of a lurker, consider jumping in and building up the numbers necessary for badges. Depending on what you do (and what you’ve done), you may find yourself the recipient of several shiny new badges as we extend the ways in which we show appreciation for those who make our community a better place!
OK, one hint: We aren’t just going to reward the members active in Q&A, so if answering questions isn’t your thing, you can still gain badges for other activities. Experiment with meaningful contributions, show your support for other members, and see what happens!
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