If you've started an extremely popular thread

you can remove it from being displayed

Is there any way to tell which thread that p:confused:pular thread is?

I mean technically yes, but that's sort of a lot of work for tech to find everyone's most popular thread if they ask and we just don't have the workhours to devote to that

I figured the new functionality might have a link t:o a list of threads but when I tried selecting the new icon (seemed obvious) nothing happened, so I asked.

What an odd badge to implement without a way of linking in to the thread :D

Indeed -- that was my th:(ught too. I've been on here for over 20 years. I have absolutely no idea which thread(s) the badge could be referring to.

It's not a single click but if you click on the name of the member showing that badge and click View Public Profile then switch to the Statistic tab and click 'Find all threads started by' you will see all the threads started by that member and you can see the hot one(s) with the number of replies views shown in a column to the right.

I figured it would be limited to four badges visible, but somehow I have five :confused:

Please don't feel obligated to take the site back down on my account. It isn't that big of a deal ;)

ETA: now I'm not sure. This post has four under my name, but one of my posts upthread has five.

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-J.

Thanks!

I wonder if the number of replies is the metric used f:confused:r this badge...

I believe it's a calculation based on views rather than replies so I've updated my original post above to reflect that. The number of views is also available using this method.

Ok, thanks! I've posted a few error fares in my days.

When I first saw that badge I thought somebody had given me a polar bear somehow.

What is your definition of a popular thread :)?

Plenty of badges have come in under the 'engagement' section:

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/badg...?do=viewbadges

Metrics - I've started 174 threads and the most active has 577 replies and 99.5K views. I only have the 'Eyes On'

I've started 457 threads. The m:cool:st active has 64k replies and 3M views. I, too, have the 'Eyes on' ...

Ahhh! That's makes me sense! Now I know! I still take a time and when I take a breaks from the forums. I don't post too often.

What is the eligibility criterion for a "Conversation Starter" badge?

The world will never know!

Probably a high number of threads created / started.

What does "all eyes on you" badge imply? It showed up automatically ...

Answer is up thread #281

I'm shy and paranoid, so it startled me!

If FlyerTalk is going to have these badges, it would make sense to tell participants exactly what they signify. :idea:

let’s see if it happens - in the meantime such joy that you have this badge!

I have the "All eyes on you!" badge, and am duly joyful about having started an extremely popular thread. :)

I was inquiring about the "Conversation starter" badge.

What is the new "Community Builder" badge instituted this month?

:rolleyes:

one more time — while it would be *REALLY* nice to know when FT (or IB) implements a new badge, it would be even nicer to know their criteria for “awarding” it

at least “Community Builder” has a somewhat more conventional (traditional?) implication than “All Eyes On You”

another (probably academic) question — since this is FlyerTalk, why do some profiles (like mine) have “number of countries visited” as the first badge? I’d *think* either “airline miles” or “years on the site” would be far more logical defaults, esp since it doesn’t appear there’s a way for an individual user to re-order the icons

I have deduced through expert analysis that "All eyes on you" is awarded when a thread you created reaches 5,000 views.

Anyway, point of my post: can we get more badges for number of hotel nights? The maximum of 100 is barely 1/4 of the total possible nights! A 365 night badge would be nice :)

What is the "number of h:confused:tel nights" anyway? Lifetime? Per year? It doesn't say.

The title of the section is "Yearly Hotel Reward Nights" so I've been treating it as per year but you make a good point, it doesn't say on the badge, and it would be more consistent if it were lifetime like miles, countries and points.

Yes -- sorry, I didn't look it up before my last post. But it is woefully unclear in any event. Does that mean nights stayed counting towards a reward, rewards redeemed? And then there's the whole bit of what does "Yearly" mean. Is that each year (on average), or just this year? It's s:rolleyes: unclear. The airline miles, countries visited, and years on FT categories are lifetime related so IMO the hotel one should probably be as well.

You earn 365 reward nights each year?

is there any way to turn this off? I don't want badges, I don't like it when the forum software "awards" me some dumb badge and it's automatically added to my profile without asking me and then I have to do a bunch of unnecessary clicking to take it off. this "feature" should be opt in or removed completely.

I'm not sure I know the definition of "reward night". My best guess of the intent of the badge is to represent how many nights are spent in a hotel per year, so "reward night" is short for "a night spent at a hotel that is eligible for reward". I think that is the hotel equivalent to how many miles are flown (which is the "Lifetime Airline Miles" badge).

I stay 365 nights per year in hotels (Marriott, specifically) and "earn" 365 nights + various bonus nights. According to my Marriott account, last year I earned 467 total nights (but at least 100 of those came from the annual double nights promotion and another promotion). I think some people might like the nights badge to represent nights credited (which can exceed 365) but for me personally, I think the badge would be best if it represented actual nights stayed in hotels.

(I don't know much about Hyatt but for Marriott Bonvoy, a lot of credit card partnerships provide quite a lot of night credits, and so it is theoretically possible to be credited for 100 "nights" despite having spent less than 25 actual nights in hotels. For that reason, I think the credited nights number is mostly useless, and actual nights stayed is much more representative of how a person uses hotels.)

Already been answered up thread. No.

You can deselect any user managed badges in your profile but some are automagic. Just in the same way you can't decline likes that others on the forum bestow on your contributions. Best to go with the flow, it's the modern way of the world, like it or not.

well it's incredibly rude for admins to implement some sort of feature that just makes a bunch of busywork for me with zero opt-in, why would I even care how many countries some rando poster says he's been to

How exactly is it busywork for you? You can just look away :confused:

-J.

sure when I spray graffiti on a building, the bellyachers can just not look at it. give me a break.