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anhhai
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Re: New Badges?

Sekerob, where do you crunch the other .1% of the time? searching for little green men?
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Re: New Badges?

Pretty plz, I hope to be permitted to use the 0.1% for myself and whatever purpose. tongue
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Re: New Badges?

HFCC is purple on sapphire, but has other colors depending on the badge level, so this is not an issue.

Maybe you could just add a number to the upper left corner of the sapphire badge. Recognize 5, 10, 20, years etc. Next could be 100s shown as 1C,2C,3C etc. If you get to thousands it could be 1K etc.
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Re: New Badges?

Blah, blah, blah. Idea, speculation; comment; suggestion; good idea; bad idea; agree; disagree, simple, complex, blah, blah, blah ..........

1. The current badge system is not going to be changed.

2. It has taken 5+ years to create 2 sets of 3 badges each. It is easy to expect badges in bunches of 2 or 3.

3. Each badge will have its own colour so any new badges will not be a duplicate of an existing coloured badge. This rules out new badges of the colours yellow, silver/grey, green, blue, brown, red. That doesn't leave a lot of unused colours, especially since the icon for HFCC is already purple, dddt is black and white is the universal background. How you think WCG can create 5-10 new badges is beyond my comprehension.

4. No one at WCG is interested in creating a large number of badges. (see #3 above)

5. WCG is not interested in creating a badge that only a few will achieve (eg: review history to date)

6. The number 1 reason to not create ANY new badges is that it MIGHT encourage crunchers to hoard WU in order to get to 5 or 10 year levels. (see new beta WU release criteria)

In summary, as I have said before, feel free to propose ideas, speculate and comment, but do not for even a second think that your idea even begins to meet the criteria that WCG Admin is using to create new, if any, badges.

My suggestion is 2 new badges for 5 and 10 years in Amethyst and Turquoise with some outlining to make the HFCC badge work with Amethyst. We wait and see


blah, blah, blah ... ??? Give me a break, please !

My apologize all, but I can't believe that again this guy posted a negative comentary. Ever I read any coment from him in any thread, is the worst one in the string of posts. Never saw a constructive one from him ! Never saw anyone that could be considered a plus.

Why this kind of comentary and this kind of behaviour ? Just for nothing ? Why ever him take a negative position with assumptions about the projects, the WCG rules, and WCG in general that I can't imagine from were got it. Maybe probably "imagine" that have some kind of privilege to acess direct sources in WCG Tech and Adm team and thoughts to have some kind of assumptions that appear for me a lot of imaginary "information" negatively distorsed to apeear something, like continuosly post away and many times with a kind of wording make up trying appear that have the last position and the true just at your side... very bad it !

I would like to ask him again, as requested times ago in other thread were we saw the same bad behaviour from him, to change the negative behaviour and trends on coments, and try be positive and constructive sometimes, once despite of the coments be part of the discussions components and have the right to post anything, frequently I think that appear don't add anything to the discussion focus. On the contrary !

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Re: New Badges?

There is no absolute need for a badge to be limited by colour, shape or imagination. A badge could have stripes (vertical, horizontal or diagonal in either direction), made from several different colours. They could include dots, small circles or x's.
The icons could also be triangular, diamond, circular, pentagonal...

I think the artist was hired to design the badge symbol, not to restrict the shape or limit the design to colours. The artist did an excellent job for CEP2. Pity someone with less artistic imagination was left to put an ugly 2 on the DDDT2 badge. There is still time to change it, and I don'€™t think anyone would complain, well maybe one. It would also serve to open up the possibility to simply add a number (for years). Not that the roman numerals is a lesser idea, it's much better and would at least suffice; V for 5years, X for 10years, L for 50years, C for 100years, D for 500 and M for 1000years.
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Re: New Badges?

There is no absolute need for a badge to be limited by colour, shape or imagination. A badge could have stripes (vertical, horizontal or diagonal in either direction), made from several different colours. They could include dots, small circles or x's.
The icons could also be triangular, diamond, circular, pentagonal...

I think the artist was hired to design the badge symbol, not to restrict the shape or limit the design to colours. The artist did an excellent job for CEP2. Pity someone with less artistic imagination was left to put an ugly 2 on the DDDT2 badge. There is still time to change it, and I don'€™t think anyone would complain, well maybe one. It would also serve to open up the possibility to simply add a number (for years). Not that the roman numerals is a lesser idea, it's much better and would at least suffice; V for 5years, X for 10years, L for 50years, C for 100years, D for 500 and M for 1000years.


Interesting, it was an original idea that don't saw before in any discussions. Well done ! cool idea peace coffee
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Re: New Badges?

Ok, calm down everybody. Interesting to see your comments, thanks for it. Well, leave it as it is, it makes no difference finally (for me). My attempt to hear what other people think about it gave me a general impression, in an unexpected way I have to say. I am working on the grid now since nearly 5 years (not with a superhightech-computer) on several projects. Your comments show a gap between the possibilities we have nowadays and what was able 5 years ago. And it shows for me another tricky thing. On one side there are the supercrunchers with their clustered high-tech machines, hunting for points and badges. No discussion, they do the main part of the gridwork and this has to be honored. But on the other side you'll find so many thousand users, doing gridwork with passion and with ENDURANCE over years now, not since weeks. It is easy to switch a fast machine to the grid and to get a blue one within some weeks. Honestly said, somehow it's the endurance that has to be honored a little bit more. Can you imagine that some people are participating with old single core-pentium machines for a very long time? And their chance to reach blue is very low. They support the grid not with the power of the superusers, but they support the original idea itself (as it was mainly developed years ago with the screensaver-idea...), some of them forgot about the calculations in background.
To make all happy is a tricky thing. So maybe the admins put some new colored badges to the grid or they do not. What difference does it make? On the other side, it couldn't be that big problem to redesign some small pictures with new colours, gimme a break. If its to hard to do, then let the grid do the work...

Just kidding. So we need a compromise. And as some of the posters here already had said, I would like and prefer the following solution:

Redesign the badge-system, enhance it with new colours for a 4- and a 5-year-badge and let the colors rest in peace. This will satisfying most of the normal users.
The powerusers topping that mark getting a special badge with a nonchanging color, but with a written yearcount within that badge. I am sure this will get acceptance widely.

Admins, don't forget that the users are doing the work here, keep them busy with work and new projects, but don't ignore them with a NOGO...

Lets crunch and calculate, the world is waiting for new solutions!

Cheers to all of you.
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SKGIVEN, your proposition is very sound. I like the idea of badges named after noble gases. Noble gases glow different color and we all know what color Neon and Argon gases give off. These badges will look awesome.



Uhm was that tongue in cheek? we "all" know what color?
I thought neon was in whatever color the signs were...
Lets not get too chemy geeky (never took it what's argon?)
I'm not mad just what the heck is he talking about???
If badges are for the masses use the kiss principle
Keep it simple silly biggrin
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I can't believe that again this guy posted a negative comentary.
Maybe I misunderstood but your NEGATIVE CRITICISM of the badge system is somehow beneficial to further discussion, but my comments are not. Give ME a break.
Never saw a constructive one from him ! Never saw anyone that could be considered a plus.
That really, really hurts me. I hoped my eloquent discourse and creative observations were read in their entirety.
Maybe probably "imagine" that have some kind of privilege to acess direct sources in WCG Tech and Adm team and thoughts to have some kind of assumptions that appear for me a lot of imaginary "information"
my information is taken from the many posts in these forums threads where the CAs have consistently said the existing badge system will not be changed. It's there, all you have to do is read the posts.
I would like to ask him again.....to change the negative behaviour and trends on coments, and try be positive and constructive sometimes, once despite of the coments be part of the discussions components and have the right to post anything, frequently I think that appear don't add anything to the discussion focus
Here you go again saying, I believe, that you have a right to say what you want but you demand that I give up that right because you disagree with me. When it comes to free speech, you have to take a stand. Fortunately true free speech demands that everyone is allowed to present their own opinions and I completely reject your suggestion that you get to speak freely and I must be muzzled. It just does not work that way.

I made 6 points in my post plus a suggestion and you failed to reply or comment on any of them. Where is the discussion when you appear to retreat into name calling and glorified over-simplification. I get it, you disagree with me. I wasn't trying to pick a fight with you. Six billion people in the world and not everybody loves me. It happens.

Cheers
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Re: New Badges?

In summary, as I have said before, feel free to propose ideas, speculate and comment, but do not for even a second think that your idea even begins to meet the criteria that WCG Admin is using to create new, if any, badges.


I am sure we are all, very, very, very, very interested to have an opinion or comment from WCG Admin on this badge issue. Not a final comment, but at least an opinion.

I would even suggest WCG Admin, to launch an official badge thread, to collect opinions and ideas, but in an orderly manner, by giving some initial guidelines. WCG Admin knows what are the limits in terms of resources or technical. I hope WCG is somewhat a democratic institution, which means that it would be right to have a system implemented that is co-inspired by the crunchers.
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