Elections: New User of the Month

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The discussion revolves around the “New User of the Month” badge in Discourse, with users debating its current logic and effectiveness. bob_the_tomato initiates the conversation, highlighting that the badge was recently awarded to a user with only two posts, which they consider flawed. Lilly points out that the badge exists but is disabled on Meta, and ondrej suggests the issue lies in the system awarding the badge too easily. bob_the_tomato shares an example of a more deserving user who didn’t receive the badge. Falco emphasizes the need for hard data to evaluate the badge’s fairness, while Lilly references the badge’s code and explains that it considers likes and user activity. Falco notes a discrepancy in the ratio of likes per post between the awarded user and a more deserving one, and cites past discussions about the badge’s criteria. The conversation concludes with suggestions to modify or disable the badge if it doesn’t align with community values.

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Introduction

New users. They come in continuously. [1] But, I’ve heard many people say to me, that the system, is broken :(
So what do we do?
An election!! [2]

In this discussion..

Let’s discuss something like this, except with new users from the month.

Cya, and have a wonderful day :)

  1. Not anymore after the bot rampage in my main forum :skull: ↩︎

  2. Oh what a coincidence, elections are coming up ↩︎

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There’s an existing badge for this:

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we have it disabled on Meta tho.

what is broken?

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My guess is that users on @bob_the_tomato forum believe that System gives the badge out without much logic.

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Yes, that’s the one.

Oh, never knew lol

The logic, like @ondrej said.

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Okay:
Today was the new user of the month thingamabober.
In my main forum, a user with 2 posts got the badge, this is kinda broken
its also kinda funny lol

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Did the forum had any other users eligible who should’ve been picked instead? What are the exact stats of the user who should’ve been selected compared to one who has?

We need hard data for any kind of analysis here.

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Look at this one:
https://forum.creative.gimkit.com/u/jaydopotato713/summary
He had lots of wonderful art made for everyone and was really kind, but others didn’t do that.
@Falco

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logic is here:

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That user had a less than one like per post ratio, while the one who was awarded had a over 2 likes per post ratio.

There is also a weighting of who liked and much more.

If the badge isn’t working well, please disable it on your site and create a custom one.

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New User of the Month Algorithm Questions
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if (var likesReceived > 99 and daysVisited > 9) {
grantNUOTM(); }

Idk I’m not very good at coding and I have no idea how to do this, but I hope you get what I’m saying.

Feel free to add on :D

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