Elections: New User of the Month

[bob_the_tomato]

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]

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In this discussion…

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

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Cya, and have a wonderful day :)

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

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

[Lilly]

There’s an existing badge for this:

we have it disabled on Meta tho.

@bob_the_tomato

the system, is broken

what is broken?

[ondrej]

@Lilly

what is broken

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

@Pad_Pors

we’d one or two users, who got this badge in the next day of their arrival! i

[bob_the_tomato]

@Lilly

This image shows a badge for “New User of the Month”. (Captioned by AI)680×288 26.6 KB

Yes, that’s the one.

@Lilly

we have it disabled on Meta tho.

Oh, never knew lol

@Lilly

what is broken?

The logic, like @ondrej said.

[bob_the_tomato]

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

[Falco]

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.

[bob_the_tomato]

Look at this one:

JaydoPotato713

He had lots of wonderful art made for everyone and was really kind, but others didn’t do that.
@Falco

[Lilly]

logic is here:

discourse/discourse/blob/deeed5b8c10ec0c0545d9d49b8f9f9be2cc07494/app/jobs/scheduled/grant_new_user_of_the_month_badges.rb#L9-L40

[Falco]

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.

@codinghorror

The way the badge works is based on active validation of other users, e.g. likes.

Simply posting 100 times isn’t enough to earn the badge; you’d need to get a fair number of likes, more than other new users.

@eviltrout

I don’t agree that posting 60 times and getting 40 likes is better than posting 3 times and getting 9 likes. The first user is posting way too much.

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.

[bob_the_tomato]

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