I’d love to replicate Blizzard’s approach to highly rated posts (in Blizzard’s case, they implement the upvote/downvote system – not a huge fan of that, but I am a fan of how they “reward” the users that are posting well-received content). In their case, a highly rated post has a “plaque” applied to it that visually distinguishes it from other posts in the thread as one the user should take note of.
Since we already have a “Likes” system in place (and it already shows how many s were given and by whom) , I’m curious if we can build off that pre-existing data for this “plaque” of honor on a per-post basis. I don’t personally have enough familiarity with programming to create my own plugin, but hopefully the information I’ve provided here is enough of a “spec” for someone with the time, expertise, and passion to make this a reality!
Why Do I Want It?
I personally would love this system (beyond the psychology behind it for the end-user) to assist in AMAs or as a simplified crowd-sourced “voting” method. I do realize that there is already a voting plugin, but that’s a topic-based voting plugin rather than a post-based one, which doesn’t help me very much for our intended purposes. Blizzard (again) has used this feature on their forums to assist in bubbling up the questions that their community wanted the answers to most, as seen here: https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20749667310
Is that badge applied to the post itself so others are able to recognize it as a well-received, “model” post (beyond the seeing the number of likes and making that conclusion for themselves), or is this something only granted to the poster and viewable on their profile? My goal would be to have something that all users can easily recognize on the post itself and take note of.
Yeah, that sounds great! They don’t need to be mutually exclusive, and I like keeping the “theme” with the badges. It’s like getting a star sticker for a job well-done, except in this case it’s up on the board that the entire class can see!
(I think I had misunderstood your previous post, but I get it now!)
This is awesome! I’d love something like this, except for any posts that had (defined number) of likes or more would receive the same treatment. When it says you must “specify a user group”, could that group be “everyone”?
This is already sort-of possible on topics with 50 or more replies. Press the “summarize this topic” button at the top to filter the topic to the most significant replies. Likes are factored into that.
You could probably replace the .limit(1).first with a .where(like_count:) is greater than your likes threshold. However you would also have to strip out the link to the (single) top post.
s were given and by whom) , I’m curious if we can build off that pre-existing data for this “plaque” of honor on a per-post basis. I don’t personally have enough familiarity with programming to create my own plugin, but hopefully the information I’ve provided here is enough of a “spec” for someone with the time, expertise, and passion to make this a reality!
