New! Zistle Badges

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After the launch of Set Expert last week, we’ve been reminded once again of all of the amazing work that our members do to help us build Zistle and we want to continue to recognize that effort. As most of you know, we initially built ‘contributor points’ as a way to recognize those efforts. While points are great, they don’t really showcase the diversity of work that happens in the library. We’re excited to launch badges to showcase some of the truly unique attributes of the Zistle community – from what types of cards are collected, to trading activity, to library contributions. If you look on your profile, you’ll notice that you will have a badges section with the various badges that you’ve earned to date.

 

We’ve started with a somewhat small list but we’re definitely going to add more over time. Here are the badges that you can earn as of today.

1K Club – 1K cards in collection
10K Club – 10K cards in collection
100K Club – 100K cards in collection
Auto hunter – 1K autos in collection
Big game hunter – 1K extremely rare cards (#’d to less than 10)
Relic Hunter – 1K relics in collection
Rookie Hunter –  1K rookies in collection
Contributor –  Contributed to the library
Data deputy – 1000 flags accepted
Photographer – Added 1000 images
Photophile – Added 10000 images
Stats on the back – Added 1000 back images
Trade Scout – Initiated  20 trades
Trade debut – Completed trade
Wheel and deal – 10 completed trades
Crowd pleaser – 8+ trade rating with 10+ trades
Legend – One of the first members
Veteran – Member for 2 years
Autobiographer – Profile complete
Benefactor – Donated to Zistle

There are varying degrees of difficulty: blue, green, gold, red (listed in order from least to most difficult).

We really want your suggestions on badge ideas! You can suggest them in the feedback forum or just comment  below.

 

 

  • Captain Canuck

    Badges?!!? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!!

    heh… I’ve always wanted to say that…

  • phantom10

    I like the idea – good initiative. 

  • Gonzaleznut

    I have a few more ideas for badges…

    - Vintage Collector – Certain number of cards prior to 1980.
    - Set Collector – Certain number of complete sets
    - Player Collector – More than 500 of one player.  This would be a badge you could earn multiple times
    - Player SuperCollector – More than 1000 of one player.  Earning multiples here too would be possible.
    - Team Collector – More than 5000 cards from one team.  Needs to be a pretty high number because of sets, someone might have a lot of a team by happenstance, not because they collect them.
    - Team SuperCollector – More than 10,000 cards from one team.

    • josh_cutler

      Thanks!  Those are great ideas.  I anticipate that you will see many of those when we do our next round of badges.

  • Phasedu

    i think the big game hunter badge should be from cards #’d to less than 25. what do you think??

  • Josh

    Cool ideas!  Is there a counter somewhere where members can check their progress (on # of photos added, # of flags accepted, etc.)?  If people see they are close to a badge, it might induce a little spurt of activity.

    I second the idea of a “team collector” and “player collector” badge.

  • Cory Smith

    This might be a stretch but what about each user having a page where all the badges are displayed and the user’s progress on each badge is displayed with a  colored gradient bar that progresses to a different color the closer they come to fulfilling the requirements of that badge.