Proposals/Forum Badges

Forum Badges

Forums badges was an idea raised by Thomas Bell to increase participation in Mahara.org forums. Initially with the idea of increasing the participation in the Mahara project as a whole, but as discussed in the June 2011 Developer Meeting would be an excellent feature for the Mahara core code too.

Possible forum badge names:

• Core Developer
• Code Contributor
• Bug Squasher
• Mahara Translator
• Community Moderator
• Mahara Themer
• Maharan (possibly default)

Similar feature in other forums:

• Ubuntu Community Forums - based on amount of posts, probably uses postcount milestones (perhaps not what I am suggesting here, although could be a small additional feature)
  

  Ubuntu forum with postcount milestones
• Moodle forums -
  

  Moodle Forum user with two badges