List of Badges

[Kisianik]

Is there somewhere the list of all available badges, just got interested when I saw HP badge on someone, I wonder is there Dell badge, and if not why - just checked stats by searching forums for HP and Dell

HP
All(236765)
Articles(2534)
Forums(234231)
Dell
All(302564)
Articles(2510)
Forums(300054)

Overall Dell has more....

Wondering, because personally I am helping only Dell users, with a few exceptions in the past, and all my badges are earned on Dell systems....

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[TechyInAZ]

great grandma ster?
edit: or simply label is as GG and leave it up to people's imagination...

Lol. Yeah no.

What would be nice is to have a special type of grandmaster badge that allows you to change the text underneath your avatar to whatever you desire if you earn it (as long as the text is filtered by the mods).

 

[de5_Roy]

wow: posted at 11:11:11 AM

anyway, i agree that we need a higher level or two of the grandmaster badge (5K and 10K, not that i'd ever achieve any of those). ;-;

as for other badges, i think some of the challenge badges should have wider thresholds and higher "set" of levels e.g. a "Level 2" or "Level EX/GT/GTX" (for extra) prefix/suffix for crossing the present set thresholds(e.g. 150 BAs up from 25-75). might sound a bit lazy but it's simple to understand.

i also agree with a "dell" badge.

 

[Titillating]

The thing with badges is that they are...tricky to implement. The ones that tally up BA in tagged categories are easy and us community dudes can implement them as long as we have the graphics. We don't want to rush things and do something like use a placeholder graphic because we can't change the badges once they are added. They have to be manually removed by a dev and then added all over again.

Other badges, which we refer to as "event badges" (these are the yellow ones, triggered by specific events or actions as opposed to BA counts) require a lot more developer work since the events that trigger them have to be added as well. Given how fickle the system is, and the amount of work it will require if we fudge it up trying to do it ourselves, they don't get added often. To add more context to it, I was not allowed access to the badge creation system until I had been employed here for almost a year.

We will definitely add more badges to cover major OEMs, and at some point we will likely expand the Grandmaster badge set to account for people who have blown waaaay past 1,000 BA. Like most other things around here though, it will take some time. Our devs are quick about fixing majorly broken things, but the little things like badges take a while. The littler the thing, the longer it takes :lol:

 

[TechyInAZ]

wow: posted at 11:11:11 AM

anyway, i agree that we need a higher level or two of the grandmaster badge (5K and 10K, not that i'd ever achieve any of those). ;-;

as for other badges, i think some of the challenge badges should have wider thresholds and higher "set" of levels e.g. a "Level 2" or "Level EX/GT/GTX" (for extra) prefix/suffix for crossing the present set thresholds(e.g. 150 BAs up from 25-75). might sound a bit lazy but it's simple to understand.

i also agree with a "dell" badge.

Same here lol. I'm gona be a old man hunched over on his computer by the time I reach 10,000. 😀

 

[Kisianik]

Back to the topic at hand.

We're in the process of updating the badges. It's something Community has been trying to do, and one of a few of my own personal crusades. Recently, we added a number of badges, including one for Windows 10 (with a sloppy graphic, as it was rushed), but admittedly, most of them were geared towards conversation topics on Tom's Guide. Expanding badge coverage to the rest of the major OEM's is a work in progress, and the main obstacle in the way currently is getting the badge graphics. As has been pointed out, the graphic artists are part of a different branch within the company, so we don't exactly get instant direct access to them all the time. A request was put in for around a dozen new badge graphics covering OEM's about a month ago, but resources have been focused on a bigger project they are hoping to unveil soon. Reminders will be sent to them and badges will get added just as soon as we have the graphics for them, at which point they will be granted retroactively to Best Answers in the appropriately tagged threads.

That answered my ORIGINAL question to the full extent, plus the conversation there after.

I am a bit upset regarding words flying here, but sometimes it is difficult to open your mind without someone getting upset over certain comments. I am too guilty at times, saying things in the way, which could be interpreted a bit offensive. I have little excuse - English is my second language, so when it gets to tricky parts I may sound rude as well, even if I really did not mean that.

jimmysmitty said:
For common consumers maybe but Asus is a much more well known and respected company in the tech savvy circles. I would never buy a Dell consumer system but I would easily use Asus products in my system or in my home.
This is a tech enthusiast website with a goal of also assisting the more common people. I would think this system would be geared towards the more tech savvy.

Well let me reply short - there is HP badge, is HP considered enthusiast machine? Would you then purchase HP?
So there is no common sense sometimes here, as a lot of decisions are made on top, and we all have to follow - corporate things, completely understandable.

 

[jimmysmitty]

Back to the topic at hand.

We're in the process of updating the badges. It's something Community has been trying to do, and one of a few of my own personal crusades. Recently, we added a number of badges, including one for Windows 10 (with a sloppy graphic, as it was rushed), but admittedly, most of them were geared towards conversation topics on Tom's Guide. Expanding badge coverage to the rest of the major OEM's is a work in progress, and the main obstacle in the way currently is getting the badge graphics. As has been pointed out, the graphic artists are part of a different branch within the company, so we don't exactly get instant direct access to them all the time. A request was put in for around a dozen new badge graphics covering OEM's about a month ago, but resources have been focused on a bigger project they are hoping to unveil soon. Reminders will be sent to them and badges will get added just as soon as we have the graphics for them, at which point they will be granted retroactively to Best Answers in the appropriately tagged threads.

That answered my ORIGINAL question to the full extent, plus the conversation there after.

I am a bit upset regarding words flying here, but sometimes it is difficult to open your mind without someone getting upset over certain comments. I am too guilty at times, saying things in the way, which could be interpreted a bit offensive. I have little excuse - English is my second language, so when it gets to tricky parts I may sound rude as well, even if I really did not mean that.

jimmysmitty said:
For common consumers maybe but Asus is a much more well known and respected company in the tech savvy circles. I would never buy a Dell consumer system but I would easily use Asus products in my system or in my home.
This is a tech enthusiast website with a goal of also assisting the more common people. I would think this system would be geared towards the more tech savvy.

Well let me reply short - there is HP badge, is HP considered enthusiast machine? Would you then purchase HP?
So there is no common sense sometimes here, as a lot of decisions are made on top, and we all have to follow - corporate things, completely understandable.

Mine was a response more to the guy accusing TH of being Asus biased. If there are to be OEM badges there will be, as titilating said. But I would expect there to be hardware badges before that. That is all I was saying.

 

[Kisianik]

@jimmysmitty: Got it, but you still put Dell, my favorite (joking), down to the ground and that we are going to discuss now, considering low quality of cheap Asus PCs (whole system, not parts)...

Nah, just joking, we would not do this crap here

Piece to everyone, lets burn some motherboards instead.

 

[jimmysmitty]

@jimmysmitty: Got it, but you still put Dell, my favorite (joking), down to the ground and that we are going to discuss now, considering low quality of cheap Asus PCs (whole system, not parts)...

Nah, just joking, we would not do this crap here

Piece to everyone, lets burn some motherboards instead.

I come at this from a tech perspective. I wouldn't buy a prebuilt PC even from a gaming/custom machine company. Just feel the quality is lacking for the cost.

I will say that Dell is better than HP though.

 

[Kisianik]

I will say that Dell is better than HP though.

Thanks for this, feel better, seriously,

I come at this from a tech perspective. I wouldn't buy a prebuilt PC even from a gaming/custom machine company. Just feel the quality is lacking for the cost.

My time is more important to me (plus my family suddenly allowed expensive purchase, so I was afraid pushing my luck by doing everything slow myself), so I went with DigitalStorm, I overpaid about $700 or so, I checked parts pricing, however I got Life time English support and all components were tested prior to installation - I was worried about EVGA GTX 970 ACX, which typically has coil wine - my doesn't, all good

 

[Someone Somewhere]

$700 of savings will pay you quite a few hours at any reasonable hourly rate.

My dad decided to do that. Then spent a couple of weeks trying to get the cables for the modular PSU off the store, because they didn't throw them in the box, then handed over the wrong ones when we pestered them.

 

[Kisianik]

$700 of savings will pay you quite a few hours at any reasonable hourly rate.

My dad decided to do that. Then spent a couple of weeks trying to get the cables for the modular PSU off the store, because they didn't throw them in the box, then handed over the wrong ones when we pestered them.

DigitalStorm? I am missing only 1 screw from them, no joking, I got all cables for my modular EVGA Gold 850 watt PSU and bunch of GPU cables as well, actually too many cables.
$700 for me is 1.5 shifts to work (hospital), but the convenience and my family sudden allowance made me think fast.
I was dreaming about DigitalStorm for years, salivating over their SubZero cooling systems, and I got mine on AIR, LOL.
If I had time and patience and free money to use when I wish, situation could be different for sure.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

No, a local shop.