Helen joins @philnash, @florinpop17 and @lauragift21 in the club as the fourth winner of this badge.
The Big Thread Badge is awarded to the person who creates a discussion thread on the site that sparks the most collective comment love (e.g. score as determined by total β€οΈ reactions and adjacent ranking factors).
This was Helen's thread, posted just yesterday:
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Details about this contest can be found in this post:
We'll be adding more design and moderation clarity to tags like #help, #discuss, etc. We're also introducing a new badge!
Ben Halpern for The DEV Team γ» May 27 '19
Entry is simple: Start a thread that is bound to spark a lot of comments. Ask the community to tell a certain kind of story and get lots of comments! Even if these threads aren't always answering the deep questions, they are often great for seeing what the broader community thinks of a topic and are usually a lot of fun!
DEV employees are not eligible for the Big Thread Badge. π
One more thing...
We are now giving away badges for top posts in certain popular tags (programming language tags mostly). We are giving these badges away on Thursday and the first few snuck out this past week. We're giving these ones out on Thursday to diversify the days we reward folks for doing great work.
Tag winners are based on points whereas top seven is based on traffic + reaction points + editorial.
Anyway, congrats to those who have decorated their profiles a bit more this week!
Happy coding!
Top comments (5)
Awesome, thanks to everyone who commented on my thread :D
LOVE the idea of top tag posts! As someone who does backend, it seems like the frontend posts are the ones that often end up in the Top 7. For example, this week all but one are frontend posts which is great but I would love more insight into the more popular backend ones π
In the spirit of badges being like laptop stickers it also helps decorate your profile in some of your interests and expertise. π
Now that I think about it, it's also a pretty cool type of visual resumΓ©-building. You are able to show off a diverse range of topics you have written about with excellence.
I was surprised to have been the first winner of the CSS badge π
Now, if those with a given badge, could purchase that sticker from DEV! And only allow the purchase of a sticker if you have earned that badge.
Does SQL count as a badge worthy language?
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