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User badges in communities #317

Open elisee opened 8 years ago

elisee commented 8 years ago

It'd be cool if we could tag users within a community, like having one or more little badges below their profile picture to point out that they are core developers or contributors, etc. I guess like a flair on reddit, basically!

Use case: sometimes people don't know who they are talking to and having a "Superpowers maintainer" or "Superpowers Minecraft Studio maintainer" badge could help give context!

leafo commented 8 years ago

Definitely want to do this. What's your use case, do you want only community moderators to be able to add badges to people, or can people apply their own badges?

elisee commented 8 years ago

I think badges should be set by moderators only? they would be used to point out people with a role that matters in the context of the community.

I was thinking of letting people setup a very short bio for themselves too, but maybe that would just clutter the UI unnecessarily.

TangentFoxy commented 8 years ago

How about a short tagline that anyone can set their own little bit, but moderators can set custom ones (with a different color to distinguish from a tagline / maybe bolded too or something) on a community by community basis?