팬팝 is all about 팬 and quality content. It's not just about medals, but we wanted to do something that shows appreciation for 팬 who create great content, and that's why medals exist.
The Medal 질문 comes up once in a while and here's one example:
"When I contribute a lot to a spot on almost on a weekly basis for months, I don't get a medal. However, when I barely contribute to a spot, I get a medal for only adding like 20 images."
First of all, we pay a lot of attention to medals and fairness. We can't tell everyone exactly how to game the system 또는 else it would result in the so-called "medal whoring" behavior that already causes quite a bit of consternation among users.
In the past, a few people have gamed the system with voting circles, fake "likes", and other nasty behaviors, and that was definitely not fair to the hard-core 팬 who made very real contributions and didn't abuse the system.
For some big abusers, we stripped them of all their medals, Lance Armstrong-style. They could re-earn them fairly, but that rarely happens once 당신 remove the performance-enhancing drugs.
Others were banned forever. We don't have time to un-ban cheaters when there are so many real 팬 out there.
The medal system is constantly being tweaked and improved. It is NOT random. If 당신 contribute a ton of time to a club that you're passionate about, that's a great thing, but it's important not to make any assumptions about how medals "should" work.
If it was as simple as uploading a ton of garbage to a club and getting a medal, what would be the point of medals? What would stop someone from uploading 10,000 identical screencaps to steal something that others had to earn? It's a good thing medals aren't that simple.
Let's say there's a club called "Fans of Snowboarding in Florida"
In this "Fans of Snowboarding in Florida", a avid 팬 named Amy creates tons of images, 기사 and polls. There's just one problem: Florida is as flat as a pancake, it almost never snows, and few people in Florida ride. The club is a ghost town.
Another club Amy likes is "Fans of Snowboarding in Colorado", and Amy also creates a huge number contributions in the Colorado club. It's a big hit and people 사랑 the content she created.
Which club should she get a medal in?
One of the many areas we can improve in is giving 팬 더 많이 visibility on what contributions are hot, and what contributions are duds.
A future feature that we are designing is a console that lets 당신 see what your hottest contributions are. We think that will help reduce some of the confusion over medals and, 더 많이 importantly, help people make content that other 팬 truly love.
The Medal 질문 comes up once in a while and here's one example:
"When I contribute a lot to a spot on almost on a weekly basis for months, I don't get a medal. However, when I barely contribute to a spot, I get a medal for only adding like 20 images."
First of all, we pay a lot of attention to medals and fairness. We can't tell everyone exactly how to game the system 또는 else it would result in the so-called "medal whoring" behavior that already causes quite a bit of consternation among users.
In the past, a few people have gamed the system with voting circles, fake "likes", and other nasty behaviors, and that was definitely not fair to the hard-core 팬 who made very real contributions and didn't abuse the system.
For some big abusers, we stripped them of all their medals, Lance Armstrong-style. They could re-earn them fairly, but that rarely happens once 당신 remove the performance-enhancing drugs.
Others were banned forever. We don't have time to un-ban cheaters when there are so many real 팬 out there.
The medal system is constantly being tweaked and improved. It is NOT random. If 당신 contribute a ton of time to a club that you're passionate about, that's a great thing, but it's important not to make any assumptions about how medals "should" work.
If it was as simple as uploading a ton of garbage to a club and getting a medal, what would be the point of medals? What would stop someone from uploading 10,000 identical screencaps to steal something that others had to earn? It's a good thing medals aren't that simple.
Let's say there's a club called "Fans of Snowboarding in Florida"
In this "Fans of Snowboarding in Florida", a avid 팬 named Amy creates tons of images, 기사 and polls. There's just one problem: Florida is as flat as a pancake, it almost never snows, and few people in Florida ride. The club is a ghost town.
Another club Amy likes is "Fans of Snowboarding in Colorado", and Amy also creates a huge number contributions in the Colorado club. It's a big hit and people 사랑 the content she created.
Which club should she get a medal in?
One of the many areas we can improve in is giving 팬 더 많이 visibility on what contributions are hot, and what contributions are duds.
A future feature that we are designing is a console that lets 당신 see what your hottest contributions are. We think that will help reduce some of the confusion over medals and, 더 많이 importantly, help people make content that other 팬 truly love.
