In a Support topic titled “Tick badge for username?”, toanvoc asks whether Discourse has a verification tick badge for usernames, similar to Facebook or Twitter. supermathie seeks clarification, and toanvoc confirms they mean a blue tick badge for verified users. Architect initially misunderstands, thinking it’s about username availability, but later Architect explains Discourse’s creator program eligibility criteria and links to Facebook’s verification policy. piffy and awesomerobot suggest using group flairs or the Subscriptions plugin to simulate verification. Richie shares how their community uses a “Verified Account” badge and title, and wishes for a tick icon. Firepup650 and Lilly provide visual examples and theme component links to customize group flairs with checkmark icons. Architect notes that unlike centralized platforms, Discourse instances are independent, so verification must be locally managed. toanvoc thanks everyone for their detailed help.
I wonder if Discourse source code has a checkbox for username like other social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter? I searched for this question before posting but couldn’t find it?
I think it’s a necessary feature for a good source code like this!
I have no idea what you’re taking about.
Can you explain exactly how such a checkbox would be described and what it would change?
That is the tick function for username in the Discourse source code.
Are you asking about the checkbox or check icon to show if a username is free to create new account with?
blue tick badge like Facebook for the username of that discourse source code
That looks like this badge verify thing:
That has this requirement to qualify: Notable: Represent a well-known, often searched person, brand or entity. We review Pages and profiles that are featured in multiple news sources, and we don’t consider paid or promotional content as sources for review.
With discourse there is this option that you can apply for, not sure if this is useful for what you are seeking answer about:
We know creators are not created equally, so we split the criteria or requirements to apply across the different creator groups.
Alongside these, other criteria are:
You can use flairs to accomplish this. Just like how on this meta forum, the Discourse staff have a special flair on their avatar with the Discourse logo.
For a twitter-like experience you’d be able to accomplish this with the subscriptions plugin:
You can configure it so users who subscribe are added to a specific group, and then configure that group so members receive a user flair.
If you don’t want a payment component, you can skip the subscriptions plugin and use a group for users you consider verified.
Do you have a discourse instance setup you can enable the flair badges for they are talking about?
What is different about discourse is individual instances aren’t controlled by the bosses of the platform itself, which is the case with fb/x.
To show that user accounts on an individual discourse site are legitimate, you would also need to prove the site itself is legitimate somehow.
Thanks to you and your friends for your detailed support.
just use an image of a check mark as a group flair. I have a theme component that will let you size it to however you want too
