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Community Points and Levels

Dan Bruhn — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 22:52:10 GMT

How to Level Up

By doing various activities on the Community you ascend the rank ladder. For our new members browse the site and learn all its offerings to level up. As your journey progresses past the Expert Level only actions that show your technical expertise will be counted toward reaching the next levels.

Rank Levels

Patron

Sage

Guru

Expert

Contributor

Explorer

At each level there are prefixes that further indicate the members achievements. This is done by using data storage prefixes. Something we think you all can identify with and needs no explanation for context 😊

Tera

Giga

Mega

Kilo

All Community Levels

Level	Name	# Awarded
24	Tera Patron	2
23	Giga Patron	0
22	Mega Patron	1
21	Kilo Patron	5
20	Tera Sage	3
19	Giga Sage	11
18	Mega Sage	30
17	Kilo Sage	27
16	Tera Guru	102
15	Giga Guru	90
14	Mega Guru	192
13	Kilo Guru	542
12	Tera Expert	572
11	Giga Expert	1,185
10	Mega Expert	1,542
9	Kilo Expert	3,998
8	Tera Contributor	N/A
7	Giga Contributor	N/A
6	Mega Contributor	N/A
5	Kilo Contributor	N/A
4	Tera Explorer	N/A
3	Giga Explorer	N/A
2	Mega Explorer	N/A
1	Kilo Explorer	N/A

Not all activities are created equal. We are keenly aware some take extensive time and knowledge. Activities are weighted based on value they bring to the Community and knowledge learned by the member.

Activities and weight from highest to lowest

Article & Blog Authoring
Accepted Solution Received
Helpful Received
Helpful Comments
Contributions, Message Views, Comments, Logins

Re: Community Points and Levels

Mohit Kaushik — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 14:20:06 GMT

Thanks @Dan Bruhn this clarifies a lot about the designations and ranks.

Re: Community Points and Levels

johnfeist — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 14:44:44 GMT

Thanks Dan, this clears up a lot of confusion.

:{)

Re: Community Points and Levels

Tony K — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 19:01:31 GMT

This does clear up some of the confusion that happened when the new community launched. The only thing I would say is missing though is knowing where you stand in terms of being able to move up to the next level.

Also in your post you mention only certain activities will count once you get past expert level. Can you elaborate on that? I think everyone would want what they do on the community to count.

Re: Community Points and Levels

Dan Bruhn — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 23:08:24 GMT

The system today does not have a leaderboard or way to show how far you are from achieving the next level. Ideally, we would have an automated leaderboard that would show levels along with number of members who achieved it and their names/profiles. It is something we are looking to develop. For the short term, I've included a column in my article that shows the number of members who have achieved expert level and higher to date.

Once you reach Expert level and higher the following activities do not factor in to a member leveling up:

"Contributions, Message Views, Comments, Logins"

The intent here is that as you level up higher into the ranks it demonstrates technical knowledge and can't be achieved by simply doing activities that don't showcase this.

Re: Community Points and Levels

Abhishek Pande2 — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 19:08:24 GMT

@Dan Bruhn

Hi Dan

Thanks for article. Though bit confused with awarded points? what it signifies and how relevant it's?

Re: Community Points and Levels

uzairhatt11 — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 10:30:28 GMT

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Re: Community Points and Levels

apuadofrancisco — Mon, 08 May 2023 06:41:34 GMT

@Dan Bruhn thank you for the detailed explanation!

Re: Community Points and Levels

Tommy SN Sahlin — Sun, 14 May 2023 07:43:31 GMT

Hi @Dan Bruhn,

is that column with number of members per level kept updated somewhere?

cheers /Tommy

Re: Community Points and Levels

Simon Hendery — Wed, 17 May 2023 19:18:45 GMT

Huge respect to all you Patrons and Sages out there, but I think 'Mega Guru' is the coolest sounding level name, followed by 'Mega Expert'. 😆 😆

Re: Community Points and Levels

rafaelpombo — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 15:51:17 GMT

Hi @Dan Bruhn !

Necessary information for anyone who enters the community!

Great!

Re: Community Points and Levels

Jack Treiman — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 18:38:10 GMT

Super helpful, thanks!

Re: Community Points and Levels

aeriqusyairi — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 16:28:17 GMT

Hi, @Dan Bruhn, thanks a lot, this ranking feature is super cool for a newbie like me to get going.

Re: Community Points and Levels

Henrik Jutterst — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 10:35:55 GMT

Nice to see an article about this. And I do like that you've added multiple levels of ranking.

My question is why my other account that I have as a consultant, and only have to interact with Support, suddenly became Tera Expert without ever writing or interacting with any post in the community. Is that the idea?

Patron

Sage

Guru

Expert

Contributor

Explorer

To me - if I'm an Expert, at least I should have been contributing to the community with some posts that should be marked as helpful or a way to solve issues. But without doing so, how can I be an expert in the community?

Sure, ranking doesn't reflect once "real" knowledge, but at least that's the intention of the ranking, right?

Kind regards

/Giga Guru (and Tera Expert)

Re: Community Points and Levels

Meesh M — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 15:45:25 GMT

Now I understand the rankings haha.

Thank you @Dan Bruhn 😅

Re: Community Points and Levels

LearnUseThrive — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 22:41:28 GMT

I've made 25 posts providing advice on different things, and still every one of my posts goes for manual approval. Is this normal in Community? Is there a level where my posts don't go for manual approval every time?

Re: Community Points and Levels

Community Alums — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 19:44:37 GMT

Thanks Dan and every1 for your contributions

Re: Community Points and Levels

Casper6060 — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 08:26:35 GMT

Good to know how this works, thanks for the information.

Re: Community Points and Levels

tkconner — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 17:19:10 GMT

good info. thank so much!

Re: Community Points and Levels

Ross Sonido — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 04:16:33 GMT

Does this look correct? I was already in expert level then I 'ranked up' to explorer? 😅