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Automatic Private Message Upon Event (Like Rank Change)

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on 11-04-2008 11:29 PM

Imported from the Suggestion Box:

http://lithosphere.lithium.com/lithium/board/message?board.id=Suggestions&thread.id=45

Mark_Hopkins wrote:

I had an idea I thought I'd float here to get group reactions...

Suppose as part of the rank system, there would be a box in which a predefined congratulatory message could be entered by the admin. There would be a check box to auto send the message to members upon rank achievement.

This would allow the community manager to tailor some messages geared toward certain behavior triggers that were met. These might recognize ranks for being especially active in the community, or for the time investment in terms of logins & minutes online, or recognition based - kudos, or other legacy ratings.

The message could also call out some of the new permissions being bestowed ...

In short, it would be a way that members could receive some personalized private messages from the community recognizing them on rank / role changes and increasing the positive impact of the achievement without burdening the mods & admins with a lot email duties.

Thoughts?

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Great idea! Acknowledging users on their newly achieved statuses can be very encouraging and hence engage them further into the community. I would like to hear more thoughts on this idea.

Message Edited by manjeerap on 11-18-2008 05:17 PM

Make users' forum rank more visible on Ideas

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on 06-29-2009 04:10 PM

I was surprised at how much of the users' profile was hidden and separated from their ideas and idea comments. Bascially, there's the user's forum screen name and any color, bolding, and little tag that is associated with their forum rank, but their actual rank, # of posts, and their icon/avatar aren't displayed.

I would like to see more of a users' profile (similar to what's displayed next to a user's forum posts) displayed alongside of their ideas and idea comments.

Benefits include:

Display Community ranks that are specifically related to a member's # of ideas posted & idea comments on the Idea threads (seems a bit odd that forum ranks that are earned through contributions on Ideas are only displayed in the forum)

Help Product Management recognize which ideas are coming from Community super users, newbies, etc. and take that into account in their responses (e.g. maybe newbie members need a bit more coaching)

Give more nuanced recognition to active contributors (because only the top customers get their forum screen names bolded and get the little gold star--or its equivalent--next to their name)

It seems like this would dovetail in with Lithium's best practices for driving participation via recognition and superuser engagement.

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Couldn't agree with you more on this one Roxy. What truly differentiates us from the other idea products out there is the fact that there is a strong sense of community and recognizing the key contributors (in the same way it happens in forums) only drives participation.

Bypass edit time limits as a reward for Superusers

on 11-06-2008 12:31 PM

An idea came to me today that a great reward for a SuperUser or group of SuperUsers would be to grant them the ability to bypass the self editing time requirement that all other regular users live under.

i.e.

regular users: time limit for ediing one's own posts = 10 minutes

Super User role/rank = no time limit for editing one's own posts.

Admin flag when users change ranks

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on 12-10-2008 01:50 PM

Is there any way to send a system email, or PM, or metrics report when users move from one rank to the next?

I've always thought it would be nice to acknowldge (and maybe reward) people when they move up a rank (or when the achieve a certain rank), but other than happening upon them, I'm not sure there's access to the data.

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We hear this idea a lot. A similar idea that was posted is here below: http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/Suggest-Your-Ideas/Automatic-Private-Message-Upon-Event-Like-Rank-Change/idi-p/855#A2

Display both rank and role with user names

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on 12-10-2008 11:38 AM

Displaying both a rank and role with each user name would allow both the type of user and the status of the user to be displayed. For example, we have assigned the rank of "Certified Consultant" along with a special icon to our partners to identify them as "experts." But this prevents a rank based on participation from displaying, which is important because these are our top contributors.

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Automatically give kudos for accepted solution

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on 03-17-2009 02:53 AM

This is pretty straightforward - usually when someone accepts a solution, she does not give any kudos to that post.

So there could be an option to set an accepted solution to automatically also give 1 kudos.

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Thanks for the idea JuhisH. I'd like to hear more about why you would want a behavior of this sort. Is it to encourage more of use of Kudos in your community or to make the accepted solutions stand out better.