What’s New in the MTC? September 2023 – Community Ranks
Our Mission at the MTC is to provide a community Microsoft users can get the latest news, ask questions, learn new skills, and connect with peers and Microsoft experts from around the world. This month, we are rolling out a new ranking system designed to recognize users’ contributions to the community and add a little more ‘Microsoft’ to the MTC. What are the Community Ranks? We now have two ranking ladders to recognize both types of our tech community members. We have our Contributors Ranks for those who come to the MTC to interact and ask/answer questions in our forums, blogs, and events. Some of you Microsoft gamers may notice the subtle nod 😉 Contributor Ranks Onyx Contributor Titanium Contributor Diamond Contributor Platinum Contributor Gold Contributor Silver Contributor Bronze Contributor Steel Contributor Iron Contributor Brass Contributor Copper Contributor And for our members who come to the MTC to catch up on news and learn something new from the blogs, we have our Reader Ranks! These are replacing our Visitor/Member ranks, and once you start posting in the MTC, you will move into the Contributor Ranks. Reader Ranks Senior Reader Prolific Reader Regular Reader Frequent Reader Casual Reader Occasional Reader New Reader (Please note that these rankings are intended for fun and are not a measure of MTC’ers technical competence.) What goes into the Community Ranks? When you become a member of the MTC, you start climbing the ranking ladder, starting as a New Reader. As you contribute more and more to the community, you will start to climb the rank ladder. Here are some of the key ingredients that go into our ranking recipe (*These points are awarded each time an activity is completed): Viewing messages (0.25 points) Commenting on blogs, ideas, and TKB articles (1 point) Creating new discussion topics (1 point) Replying to forum discussions (2 points) Giving (2 points) and receiving Kudos (4 points) Contributing Ideas (5 points) Authoring blog articles (10 points) Publishing Knowledge Base articles (10 points) Getting your replies marked as a solution (15 points) Simply put, the more you engage and interact with the MTC, the more points you earn and the higher your community ranking will be! If you have any questions on these new rankings or you’d like to share feedback with the Tech Community Team, let us know in the comments below.Microsoft Tech Community Achievements / Badges
Hi folks, I could not find in the documentation or any of the current technical discussions the exhaustive list of "Tech community badges" available to date. Please help me complete the list by adding some information in the comments. Thank you very much Additional contributors: Allen SergeiBaklan List of Microsoft Tech Community Achievements / Badges Icon Item Category Add Bio Profile Set Location Profile Quick Start (Awarded to any user who reaches a set level of participation in the first 30 days of their membership of the community) Profile First Image Uploaded Images 05 Images Uploaded Images 10 Images Uploaded Images Awarded to users after they have been a member of the Tech Community for 1 year Anniversaries Awarded to users after they have been a member of the Tech Community for 2 years Anniversaries Awarded to users after they have been a member of the Tech Community for 3 years Anniversaries Awarded to users after they have been a member of the Tech Community for 4 years Anniversaries Awarded to users after they have been a member of the Tech Community for 5 years Anniversaries Awarded to members who have been a member of the community for 6 years Anniversaries First Like Given Likes 05 Likes Given Likes 10 Likes Given Likes First Like Received Likes 03 Likes Received Likes 05 Likes Received First Discussion Started Discussion 5 new topics started Discussion First Reply Replies 3 replies to posts Replies 5 replies to posts Replies Visited for 5 consecutive days Frequency Awarded to anyone who registered for the Microsoft Tech Summit in 2018, who had a community profile at the time. Events Awarded to anyone who was going to speak at the Microsoft Tech Summit in 2018, who had a community profile at the time. Speaker Awarded to anyone who attended Microsoft Envision in 2017 and who also had a community profile at that time. Community Awarded when a user has been nominated as member of the week (can only be awarded once) Community Awarded by a community administrator to recognize an influential community member Community OI - Feedback Implemented Community Member of the Week Community Awarded to any user who was a speaker at Microsoft Ignite in 2016 Speaker Awarded to any user who attended Microsoft Ignite in 2016 Events Awarded to any user who was a speaker at Microsoft Envision in 2017 Events Founder. This badge is for founding members of the Microsoft Tech Community This is a special badge awarded to members of the community who joined the community within its first month of existence Community Badge for attending Microsoft Ignite 2017 Events A badge for Microsoft Ignite 2017 Speakers Speaker Recognized as a Community Event Leader Events Awarded to Community Event Speakers Speaker Awarded for playing the 100k user space invader game. This was an Easter egg game we hid within the community UI when we reached 100k members, at the time of writing we have over 1 million members! Community Awarded to the first 100,000 members of the Microsoft Tech Community Community DISCONTINUED : Office International: Awarded for at least 1 reporting issue being fixed across language and having a worldwide impact. Community DISCONTINUED : Office International: Awarded for users who have won at least 2 competitions or sweeps stakes in the Office International space and posted 100 times. Community DISCONTINUED : Office International: Awarded for winning 1 competition or sweepstake in the Office International Community Community DISCONTINUED : Office International: Awarded for winning 2 competitions or sweepstakes in the Office International space. Community DISCONTINUED : Office International: Awarded for winning 3 or more competitions or sweepstakes in the Office International space Community DISCONTINUED : Office International: Awarded to any member who has won 4 or more competitions or sweepstakes in the Office International space Community DISCONTINUED : Office Internations: Awarded to any member who has won 6 or more competitions or sweepstakes in the Office International space Community DISCONTINUED : Office International: Awarded to any member who has won 5 or more competitions or sweepstakes in the office International space Community DISCONTINUED : Office International: Awarded for giving feedback in the Competitions space and has been implemented, improving the quality of office international Community DISCONTINUED : Office International: Awarded for at least 1 reported issue which has resulted in a Global Term Change Request and had global impact Community DISCONTINUED : Office International: Awarded to members who have won at least 6 competitions and posted 300 times in the community CommunityCommunity DISCONTINUED : Office International: Awarded to any member who has won 4 competitions or sweepstakes and posted 200 posts in the community Community Awarded to any Microsoft Ignite 2018 Attendee Events Awarded to any Microsoft Ignite 2018 Speaker Speaker DISCONTINUED : Awarded to the Diversity & Tech Most Valuable Mentors. Community DISCONTINUED : This badge is awarded to user accepted into the Microsoft Tech Community Insider group for 2019 Community DISCONTINUED : This badge is awarded to everyone who has been recognized as a Microsoft Tech Community Insider during 2020. Community Thanks for the contributions: SergeiBaklan AllenRanks
Hi all, We are currently considering refreshing the community rank structure and making it clearer what rank community members have. Presently our ranks are made up of the following 'generic' user types: Members / Visitors Typically, users with this rank have joined the community, visited a few times and maybe read a few articles but that is the limit of their participation Contributors This overly broad range of users is everything from someone who has commented on at least two posts / started two conversations all the way up to our honored contributor who must have reached (btw this is also why previously we have not shared this information, it's not a straightforward as you might imagine): (posts - deleted posts) + ideas >= 8000 Been a member for at least 208 days Likes received + (accepted solutions * 10) >= 1500 Has been given admin points totaling 300 or more Employees MVPs Community Managers Now we are going to leave out Employees, MVPs and Community Managers, at least for now. but my broad stroke idea is to make the rank names marry up closer to user activity i.e. New Members (Users who have just joined and not really done anything) Visitors (Users who have been a member over two weeks who have visited at least twice and only read pages) Praisers (per visitors + have given at least 1 like to a post or user) Conversation starters ( per visitors + praisers and also have started at least one new topic) Knowledge sharers ( per visitors, praisers, conversations starters and have replied at least once) Experts (per visitors, praisers, conversation starters, knowledge sharers and have at least 10 Accepted solutions) Now all these broad strokes are still to be defined (i.e. exactly what each level in each rank will be) but I would like to ask the community what the rank names for all these roles should be. Now keep in mind we can't use names that are trademarks or copyrighted to anyone else, so everyone thinking of their favorite superhero cartoon.. forget it that is a definite no!! Unfortunately, the current rank engine doesn't let us target specific communities either so we can't have Excel Expert etc.. In 1 week - on Monday, 28th Feb - we will create a shortlist poll of the names we can proceed with and ask you all to vote for your favorite. I am hoping by then I will be able to better define how many levels will be present in each rank as well. To be clear, there is no prize for the winner and names will be accepted and shortlisted purely at our Team's discretion. To get you started here are some very simple ones we have considered: New Member Visitor Supporter Conversationalist Knowlegable Expert We have also considered using the same rank structure that is used in other Microsoft Communities, i.e. Power Users & Power BI As we are larger than these communities, we may need to tweak some of the thresholds of these ranks and our concern was you all might find it confusing if you had a different rank in each community. Or convert activities into points and use a levels system like the Microsoft Rewards team do, although this would be much more complicated to ensure progression through the levels at a reasonable rate. Hope this gets your creative juices flowing.Community Member Knowledge Level badge
It would be beneficial to provide an option to showcase a community member's knowledge level by displaying their certifications and completed courses from their learning profile. This feature would enhance trust in their contributions and allow other members to rely on them for advice. The option should be optional, allowing members to enable or disable it on their tech community profile, similar to an achievement badge.Remaining issues with new techcommunity.microsoft.com experience
Hi all, Much appreciate the new experience and improvements like tagging, mentioning bugs fixed, much better notifications. Will keep it brief: loading personal message takes very long time or eventually load eternally Click on threads in notifications will no longer load the actual item (reply, mention) Can no longer see posting stats in my user rofile (important for MVP contributions)
