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Post by swarm on Jun 19, 2014 2:30:12 GMT 1
Oh yah!
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Post by DrVista on Jun 19, 2014 3:52:50 GMT 1
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Post by Rubix on Jun 19, 2014 16:43:08 GMT 1
You mean an operating system?
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Post by Jatsu on Jun 19, 2014 19:01:48 GMT 1
You won't really know what the conditions are to be awarded a badge unless a dev clarifies it for you. I get the feeling that the badge system hasn't been completed yet, and that is why badges haven't been clearly defined yet. Probably in the future, we'll see automatic systems that reward badges for certain things, and those will have descriptions with them. All other badges though, especially those based on merit like King of Kogama/Savior/Community, are awarded manually. Anyway, the OP wanted to know what the King of Kogama badge was for. The simple answer, we don't know. However, I can give you a pretty good guess based on evidence in the old forums. In this post, Nara tries to define the badges for another player: King of KoGaMa Badge - A badge awarded to generally awesome people. But... this doesn't exactly explain it either. To be honest, I don't believe he truly knew either. I remember one time I was asking him about the Community badge, and he said that he didn't know why he received it. He said that he guessed it was because he helped moderated the old forums. Regardless, you can infer that his post was generally accurate because when Daniel E replied to the post, he didn't say anything to refute the information. This could mean that Daniel E either didn't know the details himself or that he agreed with the same assumptions that they were true. I went ahead and did more research though. It seems that Cubik was a very influential player in the past. Based on this post of his own omission, he received a ton of unwanted attention due to his notoriety in the community. However, as pointed out, if notoriety in a community isn't enough to be rewarded the King of Kogama badge, then it seems that this alone isn't the complete formula. Further digging showed that Cubik was a winning member in almost every competition. Perhaps the King of Kogama badge is tied to his part in the Kogama Fan Video Contest? This was created around the same time the devs asked for players to spread the word about Kogama. It could be that because Cubik was successful in "spreading the word" that he deserved credit for this. This is without even mentioning his level of activity on the forums reporting bugs and suggesting ideas. Being on of the earliest players to join might even be a factor. Perhaps, then, King of Kogama was rewarded for these specific reasons alone and can't be rewarded to other players until its internal definition has been changed. It is similar to how the Community Badge used to be thought of as a badge that only very helpful players earned but is now awarded to non-dev players that hold trusted positions in the community. For Nara it was being a moderator, De Lirios is a translator, the content highlight posters, and the few on the EU who are dedicated to reporting inappropriate content are all examples. So if these specific badges are to be rewarded to any more players they need to have clear definitions. What they will be is obviously completely up to the devs.
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Post by Daniel Everland on Jun 20, 2014 3:11:43 GMT 1
It actually varies quite a lot. Certain badges have certain prerequisites that must be met (All of the weekly highlight badges, monkey badge, fishy joe, cubegun hero, etc). Other's are a mix between being up to a dev and having prerequisites. Take the tester badges for example. Of couse, if you successfully report 10 bugs you will definitely get the Expert Badge - no exceptions. However, that's not really the only way to get it. If I personally think you deserve it for whichever reason, I'll go ahead and hand it over to you as well.
A recent and excellent example is a user by the name of G-wiz24. He doesn't have an account on this forum since he's too young (If I remember correctly freeforums is legally obligated to disallow people less than the age of 13 to register), but he still really wanted to report bugs. Today he reported a bug regarding avatar reselling that both me and Skinke missed, therefore I gave him the rookie badge. He didn't technically meet the prerequisites, but I personally thought he deserved it nevertheless.
Having a specific set of rules for all badges is, in my personal opinion, a bad idea. Same thing goes with automated banning systems. Computers quite simply cannot judge situations that well (yet!), and thus they shouldn't be in any kind of moderation power (Once again, according to me). If you were to look at peoples ban records you'd also see huge variation in how people get punished. I'd say about 80% of the time I follow the rule set posted publicly in the news feed a couple of weeks ago, the other 20% I decide that this case is special and that the rule set doesn't apply. Most of the time this is when instead of banning people for 3 days, I simply give them a warning.
There aren't any prerequisites to King of KoGaMa. It's vague and subjective, just as I personally think it should be!
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Post by swarm on Jun 20, 2014 3:29:03 GMT 1
Wow...
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Post by Linkky on Jun 20, 2014 3:39:44 GMT 1
I don't have to worry a bit. I am over the age of 13.
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Post by dotcom415 on Jun 24, 2014 1:05:52 GMT 1
No, no, your not God.. Yeah, I am. o3o No, no, you're not either.. : /
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Post by swarm on Jun 24, 2014 1:21:26 GMT 1
Yah he is. :3
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Post by GodCreator on Jun 24, 2014 5:38:53 GMT 1
You won't really know what the conditions are to be awarded a badge unless a dev clarifies it for you. I get the feeling that the badge system hasn't been completed yet, and that is why badges haven't been clearly defined yet. Probably in the future, we'll see automatic systems that reward badges for certain things, and those will have descriptions with them. All other badges though, especially those based on merit like King of Kogama/Savior/Community, are awarded manually. Anyway, the OP wanted to know what the King of Kogama badge was for. The simple answer, we don't know. However, I can give you a pretty good guess based on evidence in the old forums. In this post, Nara tries to define the badges for another player: King of KoGaMa Badge - A badge awarded to generally awesome people. But... this doesn't exactly explain it either. To be honest, I don't believe he truly knew either. I remember one time I was asking him about the Community badge, and he said that he didn't know why he received it. He said that he guessed it was because he helped moderated the old forums. Regardless, you can infer that his post was generally accurate because when Daniel E replied to the post, he didn't say anything to refute the information. This could mean that Daniel E either didn't know the details himself or that he agreed with the same assumptions that they were true. I went ahead and did more research though. It seems that Cubik was a very influential player in the past. Based on this post of his own omission, he received a ton of unwanted attention due to his notoriety in the community. However, as pointed out, if notoriety in a community isn't enough to be rewarded the King of Kogama badge, then it seems that this alone isn't the complete formula. Further digging showed that Cubik was a winning member in almost every competition. Perhaps the King of Kogama badge is tied to his part in the Kogama Fan Video Contest? This was created around the same time the devs asked for players to spread the word about Kogama. It could be that because Cubik was successful in "spreading the word" that he deserved credit for this. This is without even mentioning his level of activity on the forums reporting bugs and suggesting ideas. Being on of the earliest players to join might even be a factor. Perhaps, then, King of Kogama was rewarded for these specific reasons alone and can't be rewarded to other players until its internal definition has been changed. It is similar to how the Community Badge used to be thought of as a badge that only very helpful players earned but is now awarded to non-dev players that hold trusted positions in the community. For Nara it was being a moderator, De Lirios is a translator, the content highlight posters, and the few on the EU who are dedicated to reporting inappropriate content are all examples. So if these specific badges are to be rewarded to any more players they need to have clear definitions. What they will be is obviously completely up to the devs. You my friend are a STALKER
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Post by Jatsu on Jun 24, 2014 6:43:21 GMT 1
Nah, all I did was do some research on the topic. It took about 15 minutes doing advanced searches on the old forums.
Stalking would be finding their personal information and prying into details of their personal life.
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Post by GodCreator on Jun 24, 2014 15:50:23 GMT 1
Your always good at that Jatsu
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Post by Therax on Jul 2, 2014 15:49:39 GMT 1
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Post by Jom3es12 on Jul 9, 2014 4:12:01 GMT 1
I'm the god of your father
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Post by swarm on Jul 9, 2014 15:43:21 GMT 1
Lol. :3
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