What's your opinion about the new rules for Badges ??

Feedback welcome! It's simple though - we wanted those most interested to have a higher chance of their image being chosen. And hopefully if you are interested, you will vote in the official petition.

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I don't submit badges or anything but I miss petitions a lot. I feel a flat 5 or even 3 badges per member regardless of if they bought the petition would be fair? But then again this way incentivizes buying the petition so I see why it is how it is

Tbh I'm more concerned about some members in groups getting no badge submissions at all has that happened yet?

No! This is why we check for interest and the KPOP Themed Badges are tiered. You need at least 15 votes for individual member badges to be made.

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aww i don't make badges but some people create good badges and i'd love to see more of theirs

Show them to an inteersted party that voted and they can submit them if they like them!

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well i can understand the logic behind this

but by doing this you also penalize people who have life outside of Allkpop and can't come often or have some unexpected things coming in their life, and at the end even if they were interested in the badge can't even really take part in it

without mentionning that some of the people buying petition are most of the times not always people interest in the badges, but user who buy the petition to support their friends and at the end we end up with 2-3 person taking part in the suggestion period on the 30 people who sign up to the petition

and people who were interested but were busy in their everyday life are penalize because they can't suggest as much badge that they want even if they are most interest than someone who bought the petition

KPOP Themed Badge Petitions are open for a full week. The argument about people interested in the badges missing out because they don't live at AKP is a circular one. What if they also miss the badge submission period? How long should we wait? We have deadlines for a reason and unfortunately who were not able to make those periods will miss out. Happens all the time in real life. It's definitely disappointing, but I don't think we're not being unreasonable to put time limits on these things.

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well in this case you accept the 70 first suggestion and let's be honest we never reach 70 submission

without mentionning the fact that people also often suggest badge who were already suggested by other user

or the suggestion who are too blurry, or doesn't respect the rules to make badge

with all of these you never reach 50 suggestion

But it's not first come, first serve. Those that took the time and used akorns to vote should and will get priority. It is not like we are closing this feature off to others. With only one submission, I would hope people would submit their best according to the rules. Anything that doesn't meet the rules for submission (including by voters) will be discarded.

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I think the submissions restrictions is fine. How long is the petition period for themed badges though? Is it a week? Some people only have time to come on akp on the weekends so a full week would be nice. If it's already a week, I honestly thing that's plenty of time. If people aren't logging in at least once a week, what can you do?

I think it would be nice thought to have like a rough schedule or heads up when an event will happen though. Even just... :Coming up in the month of March blah blah events are scheduled." I like a lot of groups. I could prioritize my time better that way. I'm enjoying making badges lol

The petition period is a full week. We definitely wanted to give them ample time. We have a Leaderboard like you suggested, but it is not well monitored. We need to figure out a better way for people to access it. I have it in the sidebar on the first page, in the top navbar menu under forums and also a shortcut on the Badge forum itself. Not to mention it's also pinned when you go into the Badges forum.

Any other ideas?

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That's a good idea. We already show the schedule of limited releases so why not?

We already have one... When our own Badge Squad does not know this...

This is the Petition Leaderboard guys:

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Petition Leaderboard

As you may know, badges will only be made through petitions from now on. Please, refer to this page in case you missed it. It's everything we could think of to tell you about badges!


What are the stages petitions will go through?


The steps are as follows:

1. Petitions in the badge forum: In Consideration
2. Petitions in the akorn shop: Pending
3. Petitions being hosted: Active
4. Badges being made: Processing
5. Badge reveal: Finished
6. Not enough interest: Inactive

This thread contains all the on-going…

Ibby

Jan 11th 2022

We try our best to keep it updated and indeed edit it multiple times a day...

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wait but does it show the dates when they happen? I'm confused help

Ahh, you're saying we should add a "scheduled" date. I'm not sure that jives with how our Themed Badge Squad does things but doesitneedsaying  crystalblues  Pikachu-Senpai  Rainbowlicious ?

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I do check the leaderboard. I find it very helpful and I'm glad you added it :). I was just wondering if there was a rough idea of when the kpop badge events would be. Not an exact date, just like "a, b, c, d, e, and f are tentatively scheduled for the month of March".

I get it now! See my above post. I wouldn't want to speak for the Themed Badge Squad, so I mentioned them directly.

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Gotta limit polls with 70 options and people submitting bad badges

LOL, that IU event...

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Also, it's important to make sure you are on your faves' taglists to lessen the chance of missing a petition and/or event. You can set your notifications to email you when you get tagged. That way you can find out about a petition/event without even logging in

Yes, we definitely try to tag interested parties! I try to post in the associated guild or let at least the leader know.