I’m not the biggest reader out there, but I do read a lot (and I love the whole “need to read” concept behind discourse! :slight_smile: ). I did read guidelines and got no badge (on other discourse sites). How exactly do they work? Why might I not be getting 'em?

cawas: How exactly do they work? It’s awarded whenever you reach the bottom of the page.

I’m pretty sure it’s based solely on the user reaching the bottom of the /faq page :wink:

Reading this alongside Why is Guidelines called FAQ? Can we link to GUIDELINES and FAQ from hamburger menu? (2015-11-13) [image] zogstrip: I’m pretty sure it’s based solely on the user reaching the bottom of the /faq page :wink: For badge grant purposes, was/is it equally effective to read t…

[image] grahamperrin: For badge grant purposes, was/is it equally effective to read the content at the /guidelines URL? According to the code it should work if you read either /faq or /guidelines https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/w…

Can we turn off the granting of this badge for FAQ? We use a different FAQ link to an actual FAQ and have /guidelines go to the Guidelines. I found that users are still getting granted this badge by merely visiting /about/faq even though that just redirects to a different real FAQ. We want to have …

[image] wolftune: Can we turn off the granting of this badge for FAQ? You can enable or disable whatever badge you want in admin/badges it has [ ] Enable badge of every system badge.

Well, I want the badge, but I want it to be granted only for visiting /guidelines and not for visiting /faq (this is when we have set an external FAQ so that “Guidelines” shows up again in the nav system). Anyway, I found an adequate workaround: I used a CSS customization to hide the faq links so t…

How does the reader / read guideline badges work?

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cregox (caue rego) Mars 12, 2015, 2:45 3

I’ve read somewhere (couldn’t find it now) that’s not it and there are other measures taken to prevent precisely that. Also, I did reach bottom many times, so it’s not working.

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How does the reader / read guideline badges work?

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