Folks,
For a long time we had been getting requests for user avatars (those little Pepes that you see next to some people's names). So far it has been ad hoc and limited to a few people only.
We have been working on an exciting new system that monitors the user activity and adds an Avatar to those who meet minimum criteria in terms of karma points and account age!
And guess, we have just rolled it out!
If you are one of the lucky ones, you might have just seen an Avatar next to your name. If so congratulations !
This is also our way of recognising contributions made by our long term users, and in future we plan to enhance this system to add special custom avatars to those veteran users who go above and beyond. We hope that this community keeps growing by leaps and bounds and continue doing the amazing work we have been doing as we get closer to the Great Awakening!
We are still working with many constraints, so please note that this system might change without notice, and please refrain from griefing mods regarding the Avatars!
Note: If anyone wants to change your avatar to a female one, please send me a DM with the message "requesting female avatar".
After going through some feedback, wanted to add a couple of things. Whether you have a Pepe or not, just remember that every one here is valued equally and everything you do - even the ones just lurking and learning - is to change the world and wake people up. I can't think of a single other community that can actually claim they are making the world a better place until Q came along.
If we could, we would love to give Pepes to every single one of you and let you choose which one you want. Unfortunately, we are working with great many limitations and have to be very careful with how many people we add or we end up slowing down the site for everyone.
Currently, the minimum requirements are 40K combined posts+comments karma, and > 6 months account age. This may change in future as we work on giving Pepes to more people. The process to get Pepe is automatic, but is processed once daily. If you are inactive for 2 months (no posts or comments), you might lose your Pepe. Don't let these minimums daunt you. The real fun is waking up one day and seeing a Pepe next to your name! This shouldn't distract us from doing our real job - changing the world.
Pretty awesome! Can you please explain what the minimum criteria is? 👍🐸
At the moment, we have minimum account age of 6 months and combined karma of 40k. This is subject to change as we monitor how many people get avatars added daily and our resource usage.
I got over a year and about 27k combined. 40k seems high unless youre ashlandog
No one is in the same league as ashlanddog. He has 5.5 million, kek!
Ok that’s impressive! I’m not even upset.
Quality posts get quantity votes!
Big woof to that! Our paltry 1700 combined is very well aged, but clearly insufficient levels of frensgiving, with those numbers.
You should hold one of your meme-classes again. I need to brush up on my skills…
Nooo this is going to result in a ton of worthless posts and shitty memes by people trying to get a Pepe
i barely have 20k on my most active account of 8 years, some of us dont live online.
You should. The rent's cheap.
I'm glad I got my ninja pepe when you guys were giving them out because at my present rate it would take 32 more years to hit 40k karma.
u/Evspra was the best. He gave me the colored phrase in parenthesis after my name, that the new mods unfortunately took away shortly after for no reason at all.
I have almost 11K and have lurked for over two years and posted for about one. At this rate, maybe I'll have my Avatar in 2025. I need to post s'moar!
Do some research but please dont fall into the trap of being the 30th person to post something when it happens. When big news drops I typically get off for a while because the next 3 hours is 100 duplicate posts of the habbening and everything else gets lost
What about those of us who are new and spend time creating a new post for it never to even be seen because it doesn't show up in the 'New' posts?
I do feel you on the duplicate posts... sometimes I think "congratulations! you're the 80th post about X subject" 😔
So I am a 40th of the way there
Then you are measuring popularity of response as much as totality. On the one hand that's good, to have comments/posts that resonate with others. On the other hand, it disregards some comments that are not necessarily bad, just not upvoted. There's definitely a popularity bias to the first comments on a post, especially when there are a lot of comments.
Wish there were better ways of measuring engagement, unfortunately what we have available from the platform is very limited.
I haven't thought of a foolproof way. For one thing, how to define it? by number? Probably then "within a time of x" would have to be set. By quality? Quality is another can of worms. Probably the way you are doing it is as good as you can do. Just noticing though that a lot of people feel like they are being left out because the number is high. Off that topic, how did other people get their avatars? And how many Pepes are available? It's such a malleable icon. Maybe you could have contests to award engagement points, like make Pepes.