# "New User of the Month" badge doesn't appear to be monthly?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-of-the-month-badge-doesnt-appear-to-be-monthly/63264
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [2017 年5 月 24 日 08:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-of-the-month-badge-doesnt-appear-to-be-monthly/63264 "2017-05-24T08:08:40Z")
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### Author:  [@GlitchMr](https://meta.discourse.org/u/GlitchMr)
#### Post date: [2017 年5 月 24 日 08:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-of-the-month-badge-doesnt-appear-to-be-monthly/63264/1 "2017-05-24T08:08:41Z")
To explain, I was trying to get that badge on Rust users forum (which I believe is hosted on business Discourse hosting, considering it loads files from cdn-business).
Here is a badge page: [The Rust Programming Language Forum](https://users.rust-lang.org/badges/44/new-user-of-the-month)
Last time this badge was obtained is Apr 21, when it is May 24 now. I suspect the badge event did occur earlier, and because of safe net in code (preventing code from running if it’s not a month already), it didn’t do anything.
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### Author:  [@gauthier](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gauthier)
#### Post date: [2017 年5 月 24 日 08:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-of-the-month-badge-doesnt-appear-to-be-monthly/63264/2 "2017-05-24T08:26:47Z")
Hi,
Same here: [https://libertysim.net/badges/44/nouvel-utilisateur-du-mois](https://libertysim.net/badges/44/nouvel-utilisateur-du-mois)
2 on Apr 1st and … nothing more.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2017 年5 月 24 日 08:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-of-the-month-badge-doesnt-appear-to-be-monthly/63264/3 "2017-05-24T08:46:25Z")
Note that the badge won’t award if there are no users that meet the criteria in the month. @eviltrout can you confirm all is well, etc?
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### Author:  [@gauthier](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gauthier)
#### Post date: [2017 年5 月 24 日 08:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-of-the-month-badge-doesnt-appear-to-be-monthly/63264/4 "2017-05-24T08:57:06Z")
Thanks, it’s may be the problem for me.
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### Author:  [@GlitchMr](https://meta.discourse.org/u/GlitchMr)
#### Post date: [2017 年5 月 24 日 12:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-of-the-month-badge-doesnt-appear-to-be-monthly/63264/5 "2017-05-24T12:39:49Z")
I’m fairly sure my account does meet the criteria (I believe you need to have at least 1 ❤) - [Profile - xfix - The Rust Programming Language Forum](https://users.rust-lang.org/u/xfix/summary). I joined May 11, and got 46 ❤.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [2017 年5 月 24 日 13:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-of-the-month-badge-doesnt-appear-to-be-monthly/63264/6 "2017-05-24T13:43:09Z")
On a site I’ve been working on, a user who I’m pretty sure never logged in got user of the month.
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### Author:  [@gauthier](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gauthier)
#### Post date: [2017 年5 月 24 日 13:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-of-the-month-badge-doesnt-appear-to-be-monthly/63264/7 "2017-05-24T13:54:25Z")
i’ve just triggered manually the job. it’s seems ok for me.
@GlitchMr, you can try yourself at [yourforum.com/sidekiq/scheduler](http://yourforum.com/sidekiq/scheduler) and manually trigger Jobs::GrantNewUserOfTheMonth.
Be sure to give a like to a new user before.
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [2017 年5 月 24 日 15:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-of-the-month-badge-doesnt-appear-to-be-monthly/63264/8 "2017-05-24T15:42:43Z")
I looked at the Badge and did find a bug that didn’t occur to me before. If the top performing people were the same two months in a row, the second month nobody would receive the badge.
Having said that, that is not the case on the rust forum. I do think there is a bug where jobs that are scheduled monthly never happen. In this case, I changed the job to execute daily instead of monthly. There is a [check just in case](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/jobs/scheduled/grant_new_user_of_the_month_badges.rb#L14-L17) so running it daily seems safer.
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/b78b01075752affb30d938a1834cfc0984c03481](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/b78b01075752affb30d938a1834cfc0984c03481)
> [@pfaffman](#):
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> On a site I’ve been working on, a user who I’m pretty sure never logged in got user of the month.
I don’t see how this is possible. The code pretty clearly needs them to have posted and received likes. If you could provide more information that would be good.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [2017 年5 月 24 日 20:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-of-the-month-badge-doesnt-appear-to-be-monthly/63264/9 "2017-05-24T20:16:21Z")
> [@eviltrout](#):
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> I don’t see how this is possible. The code pretty clearly needs them to have posted and received likes. If you could provide more information that would be good.
I noticed this in the midst of another problem–the user couldn’t receive email (it turned out that was because the MX record for the forum was an IP rather than a host name, and the receiving mail server/spam filter thought that was just Too Wrong). I enabled the user with `rake admin:create` and logged in as them once or twice to see that it worked (and the first couple times it still claimed that the email address hadn’t been validated). I think I finally solved the problem by making them an admin and then revoking it.
And, after all that, when I logged in as that user, I swear it said that it had just earned user of the month. It seemed odd, but not worth mentioning until I noticed this thread.
If you want me to go poke at it some more, I will, but maybe just file this away until there’s some indication that it might mean something.
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [2017 年5 月 24 日 21:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-of-the-month-badge-doesnt-appear-to-be-monthly/63264/10 "2017-05-24T21:27:01Z")
Ours didn’t grant this month either.
[https://experts.feverbee.com/badges/44/new-user-of-the-month](https://experts.feverbee.com/badges/44/new-user-of-the-month)
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [2017 年5 月 24 日 23:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-of-the-month-badge-doesnt-appear-to-be-monthly/63264/11 "2017-05-24T23:05:14Z")
To add more date points, we (Stonehearth) _did_ have the badge granted this month.
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [2017 年5 月 25 日 18:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-of-the-month-badge-doesnt-appear-to-be-monthly/63264/12 "2017-05-25T18:37:42Z")
The fix only went out yesterday unfortunately, so you probably haven’t received it yet.
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [2017 年5 月 25 日 21:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-of-the-month-badge-doesnt-appear-to-be-monthly/63264/13 "2017-05-25T21:57:50Z")
Just got it!
I was alerted by this
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [2017 年5 月 26 日 02:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-of-the-month-badge-doesnt-appear-to-be-monthly/63264/14 "2017-05-26T02:37:57Z")
Further to the last post, I admit to being a sceptic of this badge for professional communities such as mine, however it has been positively received by 3 of the 4 that have been awarded it so far. (The fourth doesn’t yet know.)
I renege on my scepticism.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2017 年5 月 28 日 01:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-of-the-month-badge-doesnt-appear-to-be-monthly/63264/15 "2017-05-28T01:00:04Z")
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