Badges for posting

[PJH]

Since there deliberately isn’t the concept of achievements for posting, I’ve managed to implement it on ours, since we had it on our old forums and some were complain about the lack thereof.

Generic version:

SELECT user_id, 0 post_id, current_timestamp granted_at 
FROM badge_posts  
WHERE (:backfill OR user_id IN (:user_ids) OR 0 NOT IN (:post_ids) )
GROUP BY user_id 
HAVING count(*) > 1000

Change the 1000 for whatever post limit you’re after. I’ve themed ours (due to the nature of our board) on powers of 2.

Note that this will (should) only count posts that are public (not in categories that are restricted or private messages) or otherwise unrestricted (checkbox on edit category ignoring badges)

Additionally, for our board I’ve had to exclude certain topics due to the nature of my charges:

SELECT user_id, 0 post_id, current_timestamp granted_at 
FROM badge_posts  
WHERE topic_id NOT IN (
   [elided]
) AND topic_id NOT IN (
   [elided]
) AND  (:backfill OR user_id IN (:user_ids) OR 0 NOT IN (:post_ids) )
GROUP BY user_id 
HAVING count(*) >= 2048

Edit: There was a problem with my queries - post_id is apparently required when this is triggered on post-related triggers.
See
https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-sql-problem/19295

And

Create Triggered Custom Badge Queries

This feature is disabled by default, to enable it follow this guide [image] When defining badges there is this beguiling box “Trigger” with the options: Update daily When a user acts on a post When a user edits or creates a post When a user changes trust level When a user is edited or created The trigger forces badges to run at an interval that is more frequent than daily. We use these triggers in our badges. They ensure users are notified of new badges closer to the time the …

Edit 2: Added :backfill

[riking (Kane York)]

I think I have the correct trigger condition here, actually:

    :backfill OR
    user_id IN (
        SELECT trigger_post.user_id FROM posts trigger_post WHERE trigger_post.id IN (:post_ids)
    )

You get the user id list from the list of triggered posts and filter on that.

[ckshen]

@PJH

Since there deliberately isn’t the concept of achievements for posting, I’ve managed to implement it on ours, since we had it on our old forums and some were complain about the lack thereof.

Generic version:

SELECT user_id, 0 post_id, current_timestamp granted_at
FROM badge_posts
WHERE (:backfill OR user_id IN (:user_ids) OR 0 NOT IN (:post_ids) )
GROUP BY user_id
HAVING count(*) > 1000

Thanks. This is very helpful. I am also thinking about encouraging users to initiate discussions. I am messing around your query to count original posts with p.post_number = 1

[AntiMetaman]

@PJH

SELECT user_id, 0 post_id, current_timestamp granted_at 
FROM badge_posts  
WHERE (:backfill OR user_id IN (:user_ids) OR 0 NOT IN (:post_ids) )
GROUP BY user_id 
HAVING count(*) > 1000

I just found this little gem here. I wanted to create my own custom badge queries for number of posts in specific categories. How can one modify this to also include the condition of specific category ids so only posts in a specific category will count?

Some common badge queries

Enabling Badge SQL entails security and performance risks so it is not available by default. For more information, see: Enable Badge SQL Here are some common badge queries which you can use to create your own awesome badge! Grant a badge if user has created at least one topic in the “foo”* category *(“foo” is the category name, not the category slug) SELECT p.user_id, min(p.created_at) granted_at, MIN(p.id) post_id FROM badge_posts p JOIN topics t ON t.id = p.topic_id WHERE cate…

Should be a modification of the first query here where badges are awarded based on creating topics in a specific category. The difference is we award based on number of posts in a specific category.

[ckshen]

@PJH

Generic version:

SELECT user_id, 0 post_id, current_timestamp granted_at 
FROM badge_posts  
WHERE (:backfill OR user_id IN (:user_ids) OR 0 NOT IN (:post_ids) )
GROUP BY user_id 
HAVING count(*) > 1000

Runs into this error when running the badge query preview:

There was an error with the query.  Any idea how to fix it?

Contract violation:
Query triggers on posts, but references the ':user_ids' array