I am currently implementing a custom badge system to recognize exceptional posts (not topics, but specific posts), while it’s great the mods can award this badge, I would also like the ability for users to nominate posts for a badge. My initial thought was to use the flag system and encourage the us…

G’day there, if the users are flagging the post as something else and lots of users do it it will not hide the post. If you just ignore the flag it shouldn’t effect the user that flagged it or the users post that got flagged.

You may want to check out the Retort Emoji Plugin. This may be what you’re looking for. There are 16 posts in this topic so it shouldn’t be too much to go back to the OP if desired. I linked to what I thought was the most relevant post. That discussion goes on from there. Hope this may help. …

I know this is an old one, but did you come up with a good system in the end @davidkingham ?

Unfortunately, no. We used the ‘Something else’ flag for a while and it sort of worked when we first announced it, but over time people stopped using it. The big problem here is that flagging is not an intuitive way to do this, there really needs to be a dedicated tool for this. Something like the a…

Ah. That’s a shame. I’ve been tinkering with ones based on certain Reactions, which seems quite promising. So ‘x amount of :medal_sports:’ per post, or a certain Reaction given by members of a certain group, etc. Ideally, you’d need the custom SQL badges enabled to fully automate it, but bulk gran…

Are there problems with using flags to nominate posts for recognition?

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Topic		Antwoorden	Weergaven
Posts are hidden after a single flag Feature	83	9637	8 oktober 2019
Two custom badges on moderation Data & reporting sql-triggered-badge	2	705	21 september 2020
More default badges for users who flag often Feature badges	9	983	11 april 2020
Please distinguish flags for "bad" things from organizational and "please help" flags Feature moderation	13	1106	19 oktober 2023
Plugin: Smart badge nominations based on Flags Feature	0	2319	16 augustus 2015

Are there problems with using flags to nominate posts for recognition?

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