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Show Off Your Comment Streak with Community Wellness Badges

Erin Bensinger on May 18, 2022

Hey DEV Community! I'm here to share an exciting announcement with you ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Introducing...Community Wellness Badges! We're excited to rol...
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Ben Halpern

Fun to see folks excited about this already ๐Ÿ˜†

We're really focused on spurning on healthy discussions, and focusing on quality of overall site interactions. We hope this is a nice nudge to find the time to leave a constructive comment whenever you find yourself on the site.

Happy commentings!

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Prudence97

I Also received mine last week ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ˜Š

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adriens

So did I. It's really nice to get kind feedbacks

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Andrew Baisden

Super excited ๐Ÿฅณ

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Andrea Liliana Griffiths

Here for this!

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Chris Jarvis

It was a very nice surprise to get the 1 week badge the other day. This is a good ideal from the DEV team.

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Konstantin BIFERT

I'm not sure how, I thought that I missed 1 week at some point aka 4 Oct: I only have 1 single comment. ๐Ÿค”
But I guess that it's computed a bit differently!

Anyway, I still got it! ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿป
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Quite happy that I could have helped some new writers + gave feedback on other posts. ๐ŸŽŠ
I hope it was helpful to all the bloggers, tried my best providing constructive feedback. ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป

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Simon Egersand ๐ŸŽˆ

Love this idea. Gamify constructive criticism! This is one of the friendliest communities I've seen. The work you're doing is paying off. Keep up the good work, staff! โ˜€๏ธ

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Peter Franken

It would seem that the act of sharing such a constructive comment in and by itself has been rewarding enough so far.

Curious to see if this'll lead to any shift in comment content or quality, and whether we might see some sort of "changing of the guards" with comment authors.

@ben If at all possible, it'd be cool if you could share some numbers on this in a month or so!

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Ben Halpern

Yeah, we could definitely share something ๐Ÿ˜. We don't know scientifically what improvements will happen, and it will be hard to isolate variables โ€” but I like the idea of digging in and sharing whatever the most relevant results we can come up with are in a month or so.

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Peter Franken • Edited

Back in the phpBB forum days I've seen the addition of karma systems result in large shifts of active contributors more than once. Recalling those times prompted my ask :)

The karma feature those boards added appeared to have been enough of an incentive for some "lurkers" or more quiet members to crawl out of their shell and start participating, but then also it caused some of the regulars to leave (which could be attributable to the addition of this carrot-on-a-stick, the sudden change in people/content, or an infinite amount of other things).

In most cases the communities ended up neither better or worse than before, but rather they simply changed or evolved into some sort of new rendition of themselves.

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Simon Egersand ๐ŸŽˆ

I've seen this before too. People hunting for likes or points without actually contributing much except for overly positive comments. Which is better than nothing IMO.

There's a balance to it, but so far what I've seen here it's not a problem.

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Mostafa Said

This is an awesome idea! I'm going to get all the badges ๐Ÿ˜Ž

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๐Ÿšฉ Atul Prajapati ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

I just received two of them

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Mahmoud Harmouch

Great pokemon collection. Gotta catch em all.

Gotta catch em all

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Medea • Edited

This seems like a great idea!
Now I get why I randomly got this badge lmao

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Erin Bensinger

You earned it before the announcement! Well done ๐Ÿ˜Š

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Medea

I didnโ€™t even get the 1 week badge and went straight to the 2 week one!

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Medea

Thanks!

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Michael Tharrington

Siked for this! And I love the description for "healthy discussions" ๐Ÿ™Œ

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Thomas Bnt

Very good idea! โœจ

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Dimitar Stoev

I was suprised with the first one a few days ago.

Awesome idea!

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Bhagya

Gonna to get all the badges.๐Ÿคฉโ€‹

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Tawhid

Already got mine!!

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Ben Halpern

Good luck getting the next one!

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Keff • Edited

Cool, was wondering what the badge was about. I'm all about it!
Great stuff, got 2 already!!

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Chris Greening

I got this the other day and was like "I have no idea how I got this but I love it"

Great idea!

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Dhravya

Hell yes! I got one too!

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

So awesome. Great work, everyone (both our community for their incoming and well-earned badges AND the DEV team for creating these!)

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Mostafa Said • Edited

Just got the second one ๐Ÿ˜Ž

Badge

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Serhii Vasylenko

Must collect 100 x 1 badges now... ๐Ÿ˜†

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arnu515

Amazing idea! It really livens up the platform.

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MANALI NITIN JAGTAP

Excited for it!!!

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Shivam bisht

Great ideas flowing in the product team of DEV, good work guys โœŒ๏ธ

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Yongchang He

Love this idea which will make the community active!

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Davide de Paolis

Quite a nice idea! Gotta fight the haters with constructive and supportive comments

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Ranjeet Singh

wow!! got them all

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Konstantin BIFERT

I wasn't really commenting here specifically but the fact that it's under the wellness flag changes quite a lot of things for me.
Thanks for that initiative. ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป

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Sujith

Nice one :D

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Demos Alexas

I am in =D

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haimantika mitra

I have 3:

  1. GitHub actions hackathon runner up
  2. 2 weeks of consistent posting
  3. One year of being here
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๐Ÿšฉ Atul Prajapati ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

I just received 2 badges

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Daniel Schulz

If there's Sloan hanging off the 16 badge, I don't want the 32.

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Eseagwu Benita

Here to win this badge and also create interactive contents to my tech field. Iโ€™m fully certain on my activity here!
So much love for dev community!!

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Eric

I love all positivity this place has to offer โค๏ธ

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Pandademic

Already working on getting the 4 week one!

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Ben Sinclair

I got one of these a couple of days ago and tbh I though it must've been around for years and that I just hadn't been constructive enough before :)

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alesbe

What a nice idea, I want to get my first badge! This will increase the participation of everyone, see you in #discuss! ๐Ÿ™Œ

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Vicente G. Guzmรกn Lucio

Here for this!

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Ted Sรก

I love it!

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Vaarun Sinha

Received two of them! ๐Ÿ˜Š

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SaptakBhoumik

I got my one today:)

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Dhanush • Edited

I got some Badges.

My First Badge

My First Badge

My Second Badge

My Second Badge

My Third Badge

My Third Badge

My profile:

dev.to/dhanush9952

My Post:

Lazy Loading in Angular with example
ngStyle in Angular
ngModel in Angular

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Riccardo Bernardini

May I be sincere? It sounds like an idea coming from the PHB (Pointed Hair Boss).

It sounds like a mug with "I was a team player" written on it. I do not think people will start being nice and helpful because of this. Note that I am one of those persons who like being helpful, answering when someone ask a question in my field of expertise.

Note however, that here in dev.to there are not many "help requests," most of the posts are (i) articles talking about some experience or some technology or (ii) pools.

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Konstantin BIFERT

So, when does it reset exactly? The start of the week is Monday or Wednesday?

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Erin Bensinger • Edited

Hey! There is no reset or โ€œstart of the week," it's dependent on when your eligible comments are posted, and we validate comments and award badges daily. In other words, it's a moving window. Hope this helps!

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Konstantin BIFERT

Alright, thanks for the precisions!

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official_dulin

What is "constructive comment"? Please explain, thanks.

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Erin Bensinger

Good question, and thank you for asking! A constructive comment is a comment that helps the author, starts a good conversation, gives actionable feedback, or tells them something specific that they're doing well.

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official_dulin

Does "constructive comment" relate with likes or replies? So that the comment will be treat as a "constructive comment" by the code of dev.to.

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Erin Bensinger

Nope! A constructive comment is any comment that isn't marked as unhelpful, inappropriate, abusive, or spam by our moderators.

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Dendi Handian

Is there a way to monitor whether you fail or on track with the streak?

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Arborovik

Well-written and interesting post!

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Bobby Iliev

Love this idea!

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Bas Steins

I got mine today! Thank you for this great community!

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๐’ŽWii ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ

Cool idea, but I wonder if it will incentivise people to post low-quality comments that are barely above getting flagged but don't really add anything towards the end of the week... ๐Ÿค”

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Varek

Excellent read

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Ranjeet Singh

It's so funn !!!

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2 Fox

How do I get them