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I think that I'm going to add some badges for people who report a bunch of posts. Maybe one for 300 good reports, one of 1000, and one for 5000. Does anyone want to make or find these images? They have to be exactly 16x16 px (like https://bitcointalk.org/Themes/custom1/images/badges/hacker.png), and if you find them online, then they must be copyright-free.

I think "Shitposter killer" name tag sounds better. And if a couple of merits are awarded when a milestone reached (3000 for example), people will go insane for it.

Try to create it, however its looks similar to other badge that i found on internet, well i got inspiration from google too and i'm using bitcoin logo. Since this is bitcointalk.

https://i.imgur.com/TUNzaNW.png = 300 good report
https://i.imgur.com/HZpg5Sl.png = 1000 good report
https://i.imgur.com/JBXMBwY.png = 5000 good report

Its contain number 300, 1000, 5000 in the image, but its too small. For bigger image https://imgur.com/a/EWFlVvQ.
Probably, theres always people who will abuse report to get that badge and glad mod will make it as bad report, maybe it will be good if you add bad report badge too, so people will not abuse report feature to get that good report badge.

P.S There's always better design than this.

I have another thought, how about adding "Reports" under "Posts"? this badge idea is actually brilliant and I hope that in the next few days you could find the best design to properly implement it, but having (good) reports added under our forum names also could do the job, it might even provide more incentive for people to compete and have a bigger report count.

Activity:
Merit:
Posts:
Reports: or RTM as short for report to moderator.
Reputation:

Just my zero satoshi.
Disclaimer: this is my idea but if somebody else has already suggested this please don't ban me for plagiarising, I might have picked this idea from somewhere but this post is from my head. also you should ignore the redacted part, that's something which I wish we could also implement but this is not the place to discuss it.

I like the badge idea better. Reporting is better pseudo-anonymous.


Just have to be careful that it doesn't get too "industrialized" with the reporting .

There is the risk with any incentive that the best intentions get used by those with malignant purpose.

For instance I can report an entire thread full of account farmers with a single report - or I can report each user individually to get a badge.

Re: vulnerability of the forum. slander in plagiarism (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4601461.msg41733812#msg41733812)

Re: [staff] xandry: may I ask an explanation? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4330297.msg41058860#msg41058860)

Indirectly cover some of those issues where merit was used to reward those that gave good reports. It was done with the best intent by the moderators but was abused by some of the forum members.

Where would this badge reside? Next to the https://bitcointalk.org/Themes/custom1/images/icons/profile_sm.gif View Profile and https://bitcointalk.org/Themes/custom1/images/im_off.gif Personal Message icons?

If so, then here's a couple of icon designs for the three different types of badges:

https://i.imgur.com/olHVrpE.png (300 reports)
https://i.imgur.com/URZ0WEY.png (1000 reports)
https://i.imgur.com/Bycgm3o.png (5000 reports)

And some mockups with the icons in play:

300 reports
https://i.imgur.com/yDqscti.png

1000 reports
https://i.imgur.com/tUJFz8s.png

5000 reports
https://i.imgur.com/XzARaag.png

LOL, you even have a problem with people getting a freaking forum badge which has no monetary value rather being only an incentive to encourage non-moderators to do more reporting?
This is only to encourage more people to do some reports and I think having a badge should become common after a few days.
I can also report a whole topic but sometimes there are some threads filled with spam but the thread itself is not the problem so that we could report and get rid of it.
Both the badge idea and report counter idea are great IMHO, both of them could be encouraging.


I'm saving my merits for the first 6 people getting the badge. +1. though we need more designs.

Why maybe  not simply like that ?

http://up.picr.de/33327075ga.png

and for each Count different  Colors !

It's beautiful. But it looks more like a mark of authenticity. Similar to those from Twitter and Facebook. I think it would be cool if it was a rat. In prison and other places, snitch (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=snitch) is called a rat. So it would be something funny.

http://www.free-icons-download.net/images/mouse-icon-84915.png

I am almost on 300 good reporters, only need to reporter 17 more. =)

Just a question: what about users who don't want to be known as someone who reports actively? It should be something optional to wear in the user profile (like with the "copper" tag) and not "forced" I like the suggestion from Diagaran btw (don't turn the user details in a Christmas tree or the traffic light)

How about let's make it more simpler. I suggest using these "stars" as rate of how good a reporter is.
Here's an example :

Activity:
Merit:
Post:
https://i.imgur.com/KUJrjUP.png             = Good Reporter (300 Good Reports)
https://i.imgur.com/KUJrjUP.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/KUJrjUP.png        = Excellent Reporter (1000 Good Reports)
https://i.imgur.com/KUJrjUP.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/KUJrjUP.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/KUJrjUP.png   = Legendary Reporter (5000 Good Reports)

This is what it looks like.
https://i.imgur.com/nNeCA4K.png



Optional
And for those who have lot of Bad reports.
https://i.imgur.com/Vmqibio.png            = Not Good Reporter (100 Bad Reports)
https://i.imgur.com/Vmqibio.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/Vmqibio.png       = Bad Reporter (200 Bad Reports)
https://i.imgur.com/Vmqibio.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/Vmqibio.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/Vmqibio.png  = Worst Reporter (300 Bad Reports)

Edit.
if GoodReports >= BadReports then Good Report Stars will be shown.
else
Bad Report Stars will be shown.

I suggest something like this just to give an idea:
https://www.shareicon.net/data/16x16/2016/08/05/806982_security_512x512.png

https://www.shareicon.net/data/16x16/2016/08/05/806982_security_512x512.pnghttps://www.shareicon.net/data/16x16/2016/08/05/806982_security_512x512.png

https://www.shareicon.net/data/16x16/2016/08/05/806982_security_512x512.pnghttps://www.shareicon.net/data/16x16/2016/08/05/806982_security_512x512.pnghttps://www.shareicon.net/data/16x16/2016/08/05/806982_security_512x512.png

A police hat in general could give the idea of reporting imo

If you hadn't said that that was a police hat, I wouldn't have known what it was. Unfortunately, it's hard to depict an object with that much detail within 16 pixels.

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Regarding the counter issue, you could solve it by creating a 'title' tag with the amount of valid reports that were made. The number of results can be displayed when rolling over the icon, such as in the following mockup:

https://i.imgur.com/mumrKG1.png

Idea is great. I think design of BTCforJoe (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=557989) & Silent26 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1091163) is fine. Both look like professional. May be more idea will come out. Let's wait for it. Then you can choose from them. But one thing , for implementation this reporter badge people will more motivate to report spam post. Hope it will be upgrade soon. Thanks in advanced.

I think it would be under the coins used to depict rank like the other badges already in use.

https://i.snag.gy/7iMoub.jpg

If you hover the mouse over that Bitcoin symbol you see the text "Bitcoin core developer".

Bad idea, I would get two stars for both good and bad reports.

@theymos, while you're at it, can you reduce the time requirement between reports?

Agreed - keep the design simple and unobtrusive. I really like BTCforJoe's icon placement idea.


There could be a valid reason for the delay - revenge reporting spam for example?

That's what exactly what I was thinking  ;D Both star will show if a person have (for example) 300 Good Reports (1 star) and 100 Bad reports (1 star).

But how about if.
if GoodReports >= BadReports then Good Report Stars will be shown.
else
Bad Report Stars will be shown.

Edit.
These two guy's reply below were right. I think it is much better to exclude Bad report Stars in my suggestion. By the way it's just an option.
By looking and having these shiny stars on their profile, members will be encourage to help reporting.

However, I also like BTCforJoe's suggestion.

I think that might deter people from reporting for fear of getting it wrong. It would be better to stick to the positive side of the equation.

I don't think so it should be reflect both report on profile. Those are reporting there might be some bad. But it doesn't mean he is doing bad. But if the maximum post are bad than can be reflect only bad report badge. But I am not encourage about that. Those are reporting they are helping forum to keep clean. So we should consider his bad report.

On my opinion it's better to show only good report badge. There not necessary to use bad report badge. Cause there is not action for bad report. We need to motivate people for report , not disappointed.

Finally some encouragements for reporting bad posts... To me reporting is kind of policing or being a detective for the forum. So my inspirations are coming from police/detective themes.


I have highlighted the ones I prefer.
The first one with the face is kind of busted
Second one with the ID search is basically looking for plagiarism, spamming contents etc etc
The third one is kind of a siren where be aware of the use, s/he will bust you.

Whichever we chose, colorize them like BTCforJoe, cissrawk suggested.

I like the idea of the badge for reporting to the moderator. Since I don't have enough of graphic talent do make a nice icon within the size demands I will only offer my take on good/bad reports.

I would make it in a way that user gets the badge for report only in case he has 90% successful reports. Of course actual percentage should probably be tweaked a little but I will leave that for more experienced members of the community. I have 100% but I only reported around 50 posts for now.

I think that's a great idea.

Now I need another coffee. I was going to complain that the mouse hover didn't work. and then I realised that I was hovering over an image, and not a real profile. The Internet distorts reality, especially when you stay in bed for too long. :)

I like the idea. I think reporters should be rewarded with something in some capacity, and I guess this is a little token for their extra work. I wonder is sig campaigns will pay extra for the badge?  :D

Have you thought about any other additional benefits to reporting? Maybe a bigger personal text or something else? I think the more rewards for reporting the better as it is largely a thankless task even though it helps a lot and we really could do with more people reporting things, but when there's little to no reward for it most people wont bother.


I like the idea of those ones. Some sort of little badge/shield or medal will work. Maybe just change the numbers to single figures like 1 2 or 3, or maybe just a plain one for 300, then 1k & 5k etc.

May be a toggle checkbox as an additional option like we have for post count?

Profile > Forum Profile Information


I already have one, check if you have the same  :P

These looks fine too, i think whatever it's chosen there must be a connection to what actually represents.

Also a fedora hat may work and bring a bit of style/something nice to see: https://www.shareicon.net/data/16x16/2016/01/06/699058_hat_512x512.png

I don't have that option yet but it looks like it is giving you the option of whether you want to see the badges or not. What LeGaulois was suggesting was the option to wear or hide your own badge.

I think he just added it by editing the html in the chrome browser to show how it would look, i don't have it either  :)

You won't yet or may be never. The reason I have it is, theymos and I made a good deal  :P

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Piggy!!! again!!! Please  :D

Ok here's my stupid idea:

How about a mushroom cloud for 5k, since you're responsible for nuking so many posts!!!
A little explosion for 300 a slightly bigger explosion/smaller mushroom cloud (or maybe diff colour idk) for 1k.

I'm not a graphic designer so I can't make the icons  >:(

You don't have to be a graphic designer when you have google  :P

Need a nice red one for the 5k!

On top of not being a graphic designer, I'm also lazy!!!!!!!  8)

This is the best idea yet.



Can you find anything that meets the requirements?

A good graphic designer can make it in 5 to 10 mins if you give them the chosen one and also tell them the color pattern etc.

On google I can't find the 16x16 one, I am afraid.

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If everyone become a graphic designer then who is going to hire them? Good for them that you are lazy  :P

I couldn't either which is why someone who knows what they are doing will have to knock something up.

I am fairly new to the forum however would you mind if I join?

The idea is related to cleaning the forum which reminds me a combination of a forum icon and a cleaning brash.

These are some forum icons:
https://i.imgur.com/fd40A3C.png
https://i.imgur.com/iImb9Wn.png

Here is a cleaning brash icon:
https://i.imgur.com/GoiVxKr.png

May be we can create an icon combining the forum icon and a cleaning brash like we see for ccleaner.
https://i.imgur.com/HjzivhO.png

Or may be a brash icon combine with a BTC icon?

Hope you don't hate me  ::)

I'm sure theymos has already considered the fact that many users won't want to be labeled as a "snitch" or "Sumbungero". It will very likely be optional. Probably be best that it was turned off by default too.

I like those ones, I prefer to see also something related to military badges  :)

BTCforJoe badges are good but i prefer to keep it for something more important. The ones having this "verified" badge should imo be known by the community (green) or by a group (orange) or by no one (grey).

Stars are fine, and Flying Hellfish of the mushroom cloud is an interesting one. However, I would personally refrain from using any types of ticks for the badge. How about a white hat or something?

Just a question,
What is this report badges for? Does it affect the ranking system? If yes, Iam sure that lots of user will do reporting excessively even if the reported replies is useful for everyone.

What are the consequences if you do not maintain the report counts?

I think it's just to display how many reports someone has done, and i don't think you really get any other benefits from it..

So no, it shouldn't affect the ranking system, and i don't think that there are any "consequences" for not reporting any posts.

There might be some campaigns that'll pay more if you have made more reports, but i kind of doubt that though.

It's a way of showing appreciation for reporting. Not only that, but certain individuals are motivated by status gain, and badges are a way of motivating these individuals to report more. Its exactly the reason why online courses use badges as a reward. It might sound a little silly if you don't care too much about status, and others perception of you. But, some people do.

https://prnt.sc/kavb37
https://prnt.sc/kavbn6
https://prnt.sc/kav7lh
https://prnt.sc/kav8mp
https://prnt.sc/kav8wa

https://prnt.sc/kav6ld
https://prnt.sc/kavd8e

I think this is more accurate (pardon me Silent26 for editing your post)

I personally don't like the "cop" theme (I don't want to be seen as a cop hehe).  I also think we can come up with something more unique than check marks or badges or stars (no offense intended).

Fedora, white hat, top hat is pretty good.  But I think something that other forums don't have would be cooler!

Maybe the mushroom cloud could be black for 300, half red for 1k and full red for 5k!

Simple but meaningful,  ;D I'd like the idea of Silent26 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1091163) and also the idea of BTCforJoe (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=557989), either which of these two badges it's looks like great IMO. They are a really good graphic designer for making badges and also waiting for other too.

Edited: I tried to make my own design too maybe later I will post it here, LMAO.( trying hard ) ;D  ;D

Yeah, the cop theme is so so. Although, I wouldn't mind it too much. I'm not sure what other forums use, because believe it or not this is one of the only forums that I used regularly. I guess the fedora hat would be a popular one.

I do like the mushroom cloud idea though. Even, if its just a colored version at 5k reports.

I like BTCforjoe's idea, but for me it is better to add the symbol beside the user name. So it will be like a verified account in other social media, which is good i think.

The whole reporter badge idea has nothing to do with "verifying" an account. This will only help scammers who want to impersonate someone else.

I love this idea, but, I tried to make one and it looks like a tree.

I tried these:

https://i.imgur.com/cisvMp0.png (300 good reports)
https://i.imgur.com/H2FapMh.png (1000 good reports)
https://i.imgur.com/sElYodG.png (5000 good reports)

When hover: (credits to BTCforJoe (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4742257.msg42829833#msg42829833))

https://i.imgur.com/e1uiYYT.png

I like the nuke idea, although not all reporting leads to nuking and thus it may be slightly focused on one of the possible outcomes of reporting. I thought about a “fuck you” finger icon, laughed at the idea for a minute, and then saw it too offensive to be sustainable really.

I then went over to reviewing Greek Gods, to see if any would fit. Ares was the God of War, and by title seemed fit. Nevertheless, he is often described as a coward, often suffering some kind of humiliation, and was not really worshipped to a large extent in ancient Greece.

On the other hand, Zeus, his father, seems a much better candidate. Zeus was the supreme God and ruled Mount Olympus. As such, he was revered by all and was described as a God who brought peace in a place of violence. He also maintained moral and justice and was also known as “Polieos” for overseeing the Polis (city).

His symbol is lightning, so either an icon with lightning in different colours could be used (i.e. yellow, orange, red) or an array of red lightning icons repeated from 1 to three times.

Note: My memory lags a bit on Greek Gods, so I has to check the facts on http://greekgodsandgoddesses.net/gods/zeus/.

Edit: The idea would be something like https://i.imgur.com/znrZM52.jpg, playing with the colors for each report rank. Unfortunately, being colorblind makes colors a bit of a challenge for me.

I think stars may be the suit option because it's commonly being use for positive things


I think there is no need to name the rank become it's childlish IMO

No, it's probably just a badge to reward reporting. I wouldn't be against it having some extra privilidges though, but nothing too extravagant nor should it be used to bypass ranks.


I like the military chevrons. Maybe instead of the same but different colours you could just get an additional chevron each time you move up a rank like I believe they do in the military. Ie one chevron for 300 good reports, two chevrons for 1000 etc. More could easily be added as needed as well.

https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/321678544111_/NEW-Pair-of-British-Army-No1-Dress-Chevrons.jpg


Haha. I think we should actually just use a meme for it:

https://discordemoji.com/assets/emoji/TipsFedora.png

Or Internet detectives:

http://shopforclipart.com/images/cartoon-witch-hat/14.jpg

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1061/1924/files/Man_Detective_Emoji_Icon_ios10.png

Take your pick. Can anyone edit them to be a suitable size? Maybe they wouldn't work being so small.




Yeah, it shouldn't be like this. People might think the accounts are 'verified' and could give people a false sense of security.

Done, the internet detective looks pretty good on smaller size, i kinda like it.
https://i.imgur.com/XzaUeVr.png  https://i.imgur.com/FOqs20G.png

And the meme https://i.imgur.com/pueVvhr.png.

Here are some of my additional suggestions. If you guys don't like Stars, then how about medals?

https://i.imgur.com/nDnhbaR.png  = 300 Good Reports (Bronze)
https://i.imgur.com/4LTe9GV.png  = 1000 Good Reports (Silver)
https://i.imgur.com/tkVTxmh.png  = 5000 Good Reports (Gold)

Somehow similar to Stars but these are badges.

https://i.imgur.com/PRxFdo3.png  = 300 Good Reports (Bronze)
https://i.imgur.com/WFD9Sad.png  = 1000 Good Reports (Silver)
https://i.imgur.com/r9DWzh7.png  = 5000 Good Reports (Gold)

How about Ribbons?

https://i.imgur.com/62kMiXE.png = 300 Good Reports
https://i.imgur.com/vGETebo.png = 1000 Good Reports
https://i.imgur.com/9nhzrhh.png = 5000 Good Reports

And for those who are looking for Mushroom Cloud  :D
I think it's not stupid. I made some examples for you.

https://i.imgur.com/GZsaeQK.png = 300 Good Reports
https://i.imgur.com/AoB1xXh.png = 1000 Good Reports
https://i.imgur.com/ehIDN3R.png = 5000 Good Reports

Does it really looks like a Mushroom Cloud?

Just found it on Internet and luckily I have some time to spent to make these :)


Here you go :) But the colors are not like what you've said.

https://i.imgur.com/A400Uaw.png = 300 Good Reports
https://i.imgur.com/ehe8FS2.png = 1000 Good Reports
https://i.imgur.com/MnkBkeJ.png = 5000 Good Reports

I would of said I liked this, but the mushroom clouds linked above are just too good to pass up on I think. At the very least I would like to see the mushroom cloud as one of the higher up icons. Maybe, add another one at 10,000 or something insane like 100k. I'm sure a few years from now we'll see users hitting that...

Like these:
https://i.imgur.com/nI0JKQz.png (300 good reports)
https://i.imgur.com/XnyVbNV.png (1000 good reports)
https://i.imgur.com/1hs6FYP.png (5000 good reports)

Cool.

https://i.imgur.com/pueVvhr.png (300 good reports)
https://i.imgur.com/FOqs20G.png (1000 good reports)
https://i.imgur.com/XzaUeVr.png (5000 good reports)

I suggest getting a Holmes badge when you reach a certain number "300 report", then changing the color every level.

https://i.imgur.com/scLCyX8.png

https://i.imgur.com/nEvp2oj.png
https://i.imgur.com/AVXoesK.png
https://i.imgur.com/avikxiD.png

theymos maybe have added the badge as a feature in order to encourage other members on reporting what they believe is a bad or abusive posts and not discourage them by having these kinds of badges. Some members might just actually avoid reporting bad posts if this kind of Bad Reports Badge will be implemented as they know that their is a chance that a moderator will deny your reported posts.

I does look like one to me but maybe because I know what it's supposed to be?

This one gets my vote so far, thanks for doing this, I couldn't!!!

It goes along with the Nuke button mods have too, much yummy IMO!

Yep, looks like a mushroom cloud to me. Not quite what I had in mind, but definitely one of the better ones suggested in my own opinion. Maybe, only having one mushroom cloud for a higher report number, and not for all of the thresholds.  

It sticks out so I think it's better than the higher amounts of reports rather than 300 etc.

But I want a mushroom cloud and only have about 1200 good reports  :(  >:(  jk

I wouldn't mind that, I like that it's kinda unique!

Hey, I had no clue that mods have a real nuke button for nuking idiotic bots. Not fair, yo mod, share that.

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This brings my PS2 memories back to life. Oh fucking kratos.

About the 'fuck you' badge, the most rude assholes in this forum should receive, it would be pretty dope if theymos implements it.

Damn. I guess your going have to report out of your jurisdiction then ;)

Nah, I don't care too much what limits are on it, but I definitely do want something like the mushroom cloud. Looks great.

It's nothing special. Just says "nuke". Hey theymos can we have the nuke button as a mushroom cloud at the very least? :P

I think everyone will work to get the mushroom cloud.

So the mushroom must be rare, something like 5000 reports. No small nuke for 300.

For 300 you can get a hat, or a star, whatever.



I just hit my 300 reports lol
I have a long way to get that nuke.

Eugh. So boring. Hey theymos, if you're hiring somebody, make their work seem less boring, as in normal buttons are lame af. Come on theymos, you can do better. Don't make it seem like people moderating on a forum, but rather make it seem like cool dudes coming to a forum and destroying the lives of shitposters.

I think it will be much cooler if this
;D

Yeah, people having no idea that it's a Mushroom cloud would think that it's a Joy stick or something  :D

https://i.imgur.com/hysIRKE.png = (5000 good reports) , I still think it's a tree and not a nuke thing. :D

I like these.


Maybe some sort of an actual nuke bomb would be better:

https://previews.123rf.com/images/lineartestpilot/lineartestpilot1401/lineartestpilot140101847/24800372-cartoon-nuclear-bomb.jpg

https://comps.canstockphoto.com/cartoon-nuclear-bomb-vector-clip-art_csp19390819.jpg

But the nuke seems a bit ominous to me though. I think it will confuse a lot of users too, especially newcomers who aren't aware of 'nuking' here. I can imagine all the 'what the hell is this symbol' threads haha.


Haha. I like 'em. I think the fedora one is too difficult to make out though.


Really like these. If the chevron ones aren't chosen I think they should be used for something else. Maybe give badges out for very high amounts of merit as well. I mentioned in another thread today that maybe some sort of additional demi-rank or other such title or badge could be given to people who earn large amounts of merit. 1000, 2000, 4000 etc. I think people who contribute a lot of meritable posts should stand out from the rest or be rewarded in such fashion.



Like these as well.

Well personally I do not want to see mushroom cloud nor nuke bomb, and I think that a certain percentage of forum members do not like them as well.  Stars, hats or medals look better to me.  Will give it a try to create ones.

Yeah, it should probably be tied to good reports rather than total amount. Just like the "your report history" page. Although, regarding the mushroom cloud/tree it definitely looks like a mushroom cloud to me.

However, that particular one might be confused with a volcano perhaps.

Better put Kim Jong Un's face rather than using a nuke bomb badge.(5000 reports)

And to have Trump's face for 300 reports, cuz' he stupid.

And the person who has more than 10,000 reports to have a Putin face badge, cause Kill them all.

 ::)

I like this too!  Is it 16x16 it looks a little big still.  I can totally tell what it is but I admit it's because I know what it is so hard for me personally to see anything else!

I like the bomb too but not as much as the cloud! 


I think we're in for those threads regardless of the actual badge.  Now I think I want the fat guy in the Fedora so I can see all the threads "why is there a fat guy in a hat under XXXXXX's name!  That would make me chuckle the first hundred times!

this one:

https://cdn3.iconfinder.com/data/icons/sexshop-icon-set/48/Vibradores-512.png

Dude we're not looking for Alia's sex toys here, lol. I think we could have something like + + + changing the color depending on the number of reports.

+ is also universal symbol of help, aiding like the red cross.
I'm also going to give the best design my last 6 sMerits.
There is no need to tie the reporting to nuke bombs, we don't want to promote violence, we want to spread the peace and spirit of helping the moderators.

Let's pretend for a second that most users are rational people and are not delusional and they will see it as a fun/silly badge on a forum.  Let's not assume that most people are radical and would view this as promoting violence , seriously give your head a shake...

All I know is that if there is a badge for reporting posts, I will spend my days off hunting the fourm until I get the top badge 

Ok here are my attempts for more peaceful badges ;)  

The idea of the report system is self cleaning ecosystem so leaves may be good - also easy to recognize for light blue background and to distinguish the class by number of leaves:
https://i.imgur.com/QOuwUbA.png (https://imgur.com/QOuwUbA) 300 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/eUsiOYk.png (https://imgur.com/eUsiOYk) 1000 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/ksb1Nzd.png (https://imgur.com/ksb1Nzd) 5000 good reports

Or purifying or polishing the forum, for which jewel may suit:
https://i.imgur.com/bNV08X9.png (https://imgur.com/bNV08X9) 300 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/TR4XZjR.png (https://imgur.com/TR4XZjR) 1000 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/BreJdGI.png (https://imgur.com/BreJdGI) 5000 good reports

Simply report paper:
https://i.imgur.com/5KVaanK.png (https://imgur.com/5KVaanK) 300 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/9FKbRtq.png (https://imgur.com/9FKbRtq) 1000 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/GwFdzIL.png (https://imgur.com/GwFdzIL) 5000 good reports

Quill pen to write a lot of reports:
https://i.imgur.com/IMDV2hF.png (https://imgur.com/IMDV2hF) 300 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/ckTtd4N.png (https://imgur.com/ckTtd4N) 1000 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/xFaVwQX.png (https://imgur.com/xFaVwQX) 5000 good reports

Eraser for many rule breaking posts:
https://i.imgur.com/SdwB3Xz.png (https://imgur.com/SdwB3Xz) 300 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/i9KSCI0.png (https://imgur.com/i9KSCI0) 1000 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/TsuTl4F.png (https://imgur.com/TsuTl4F) 5000 good reports

Simpler form like star would be good as well:
https://i.imgur.com/C8qyWF8.png (https://imgur.com/C8qyWF8) 300 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/z63SpBA.png (https://imgur.com/z63SpBA) 1000 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/4lxTOsP.png (https://imgur.com/4lxTOsP) 5000 good reports

Or moon if you do not like star - meaning r.i.p. for many "to the moon" type posts:
https://i.imgur.com/PPwEUv6.png (https://imgur.com/PPwEUv6) 300 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/mAN7u3u.png (https://imgur.com/mAN7u3u) 1000 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/bagMbQl.png (https://imgur.com/bagMbQl) 5000 good reports

He might be thinking some things differently and that is based on my recent encounters with digaran.

Agreed!!!! Another one of those achievements you can have and be proud of here in the forum. Having that badge and showing off you are contributing in the forum by cleaning up some worthless garbage is some of the goals you can have here, the big benefactors here are the ones who have already been cleaning and reporting posts even without this kind of appreciation to begin with.

That would be funny as hell, but I'm not sure it would get people to report more posts which I think is Theymos's point here.  It'd be even funnier if a rat king image was used for maybe the top 10% of reporters.

Anyway, this is a badge I'd proudly wear, but I report posts basically because it lets me feel like I've done something concrete about the spam problem.  It matters less to me that something may or may not get done with my reports.  Doing something is usually better than doing nothing, and I think more people should be reporting shitposters and assorted rule-breakers.  If it takes a badge to motivate them, go for it.

@sncc

I'm liking the Irish feel of the four leaf clover, and the others. I guess it doesn't really represent reporting, but definitely something that looks cool.

Yeah, it's pretty amazing to see a community pull together, and actively dedicate hours of their time to report. I'm a big fan of rewarding these select few that have dedicated their time, and I think a badge is probably the best way to go about it.

Theymos it's a great idea, I think it will motivate people (and make moderators tired lol) to report more spam and clean some threads like "bitcoin ruined my nephew's life" and etc.
BTCforJoe
Your image, idea of showing badge this way is great, it makes more sense to choose best one. But to be fair badge isn't good one, it's very simple and colour doesn't suit forum's template too.
I'll try to find some good ones today or tomorrow...

Got a couple more ideas for icons. Colors can be changed, obviously.

Clipboard/Report
https://i.imgur.com/UPQ28bf.png

Handshake
https://i.imgur.com/8qgfXZ2.png

It's hard trying to choose a graphic or icon type to use to depict reporting. I do like the chevrons, but I'm not a fan of using such military-based images. The hats and detective idea is good. And I do like the lightning bolts. But everything else to me is kind of "meh", imo.

Who would have thought choosing an icon was such a hard task :P

Alright, I like the handshake icons a lot. That might be a more friendly icon than the nuke icon. Shaking hands could represent a few things too such as saying thanks, but also helping each other out. Nice one BTCforJoe.

I did just notice, however, that the gold solid handshake icon is hard to interpret if you don't already know that it's a handshake. I might use the regular icon to depict the granddaddy icon:

https://i.imgur.com/nU8l2kY.png

I like this one most: it's simple and elegant. As much as I like getting Newbies nuked, this looks much friendlier.
It could even be extended in the future. For example:
https://i.imgur.com/ksb1Nzd.png (https://imgur.com/ksb1Nzd)https://i.imgur.com/QOuwUbA.png (https://imgur.com/QOuwUbA) 10000 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/ksb1Nzd.png (https://imgur.com/ksb1Nzd)https://i.imgur.com/eUsiOYk.png (https://imgur.com/eUsiOYk) 30000 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/ksb1Nzd.png (https://imgur.com/ksb1Nzd)https://i.imgur.com/ksb1Nzd.png (https://imgur.com/ksb1Nzd) 50000 good reports

I am not really a designer, but I love the idea.
It could be taken as a profile status symbol and would reduce a lot of nonsense posts and topics. On the contrary it wont help the moderators but I guess it will make there Job a little more challenging to review additional 100s to 1000s of reported posts/topics.

These are good and call back to the meaning of reporting, i would be happy with these.

Thanks for all of the great suggestions! Makes me want to make several more badges for different things, though I don't know what they'd be for.

For the original purpose, my favorites are:

I suspect that it will always be difficult to know what any mushroom cloud icon is if you don't already know, though.

I'll probably add it next week sometime. The icon can be changed easily either before or after it becomes public, though, so additional suggestions are welcome.

BTW, currently 195 users would have some icon, and only 9 users would have the highest-tier one.

I'd like to see a badge for banned accounts (maybe the mushroom cloud can work there?). It would help when reporting posts.

That's great, but when reaching a certain milestone it will be good if some extra tools are unlocked, in the same manner as the Report History.
Like for instance, exclusive reporters can see the ban history of an account for example,or some more tools that can make the reporting more efficient, report button from the the user profile, report button in the search results, number of bad reports of user being reported, small icon to indicate if a post is already reported to the mods so we skip the multiple reports, etc.
 

You could give them for high levels of merit. Maybe a badge for 2000 merit and every thousand after that etc. I think high merited users should get some sort of badge/acknowledgement, especially since they're worthwhile contributors and it's very hard to game. There's no real benefit to merit once you get 1000 to become Legendary either.

Have you thought about adding some sort of privileges that come along with it? Nothing too amazing, but how about something like a bigger personal text or the ability to have a clickable link there? I've always thought that would be useful. Maybe a custom title? Editable or not. I think with having some sort of added benefits it would help the forum by encouraging users to report and everyone benefits.


Those are my favourites and hope they're used in some capacity whether for reports or merit.


I wouldn't be against that, but I think just turning their rank to Banned or it being under their rank would be better. It's annoying when users sometimes report an already banned member for copy and pasting etc.

Maybe the Simple Ban Logo is enough for them since they didn't contribute to the forum?

https://i.imgur.com/HSqXNvr.png = this is for the ones who do plagiarism / copy pasting.
https://i.imgur.com/8uK5FzB.png = this one for one line spammer / ICO Bumpers

Not a designer and besides, we don't need them :). These are common reasons why they got banned.

I was about to create that but you beat me to it well I have different colors so probably it could be like

https://i.imgur.com/8I9ggrE.png - Spammer
https://i.imgur.com/6X6QLXS.png - Copy Paste / Plagiarism
https://i.imgur.com/sbSm2Xy.png - Cheater

Something like that. It's an X-Men logo. Probably an X-Member of the forum

Yeah, I agree. It's really difficult to determine if the owner of the post that I'm reporting is already banned or not. Maybe a simple badge or any sign needs to be shown up in their profile so that we reporters can be able to determine already banned accounts. It would save a lot of time, we will just need to past banned accounts and focus more on existing unbanned accounts.

Thanks for including my work on your selection :)

How about my idea.

https://i.imgur.com/zuysxZ5.png 300 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/rwrBVvi.png 1000 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/KBWfrHx.png 5000 good reports

https://i.imgur.com/q59nUg9.png 300 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/R7ng7Jh.png 1000 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/4pQDm5Y.png 5000 good reports

https://i.imgur.com/GNkFFUk.png 300 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/YTAPoXB.png 1000 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/UbDDS2y.png 5000 good reports

Yeah, same here.

Off this topic, but while you're feeling creative, any chance of a stalker/follow option for selected members new posts in the Watch List?

Correlated to the report badge topic, it would be nice to have general aggregated report statistics alongside the general forum statistics.  A list of top reporters could be another feature, but we’ve seen members comment that they would not like to see a report badge on their profile so showing up on a list would not be to their likes either and may act as a deterrent for reporting in some cases.

General statistics on reporting could:
-   Show how the overall reporting effort pays off.
-   May act as an incentive to reporting (alongside the badge concept).
-   May act (wishful thinking here) as a discouragement for spammers.

It could be generalized, and not show specific users, but the amount of reports that are being made site wide or for specific sections per day. Avoiding anything which could identify users that are reporting. I'm guessing there's a lot more actions made by moderators that whats being reported to them.

Yes, that would be the idea. After all, this is teamwork and besides knowing who the team stars are, it would be great to know how the team performs overall.

This is a good idea, lookig forward to this ;)
I was thinking that succesefully reporting bad posts should be used somehow, possbily with merit , but that could lead to another farming problem.
In anycase , this is nice!

To solve that issue you could just make it so you can toggle it on and off in your profile like signatures/avatars are etc.

Yes that is what I believe should be the solution for the badge, for those who wish to report by not be identified as a reporter.

In terms of stats (should they be implemented), apart from overall aggregate stats on reporting, a ranking stat with usernames and number of correct reports may, for the same reasons as above, not be appropriate to show. Nevertheless, the on/off toggle could be applied to the listing too as you say and show the username as "anonymous" on the list to prevent the identity from being disclosed, while showing the ranking position and number of correct reports.

Thank you, theymos and hilariousandco,

The colors signifies the Philippine Flag, if it is going to be used it will symbolize as a contribution not just by me but also from the Filipino People. I know there is a long journey for us to change the minds of those people whom they considered Filipinos as shitposter because of the history: shitposter plague. However, there are Filipino (Community Members) Lawyers, Doctors, Bank Branch Head, Stockbrokers, developers, DJ, Artist, Professors, and those Students (who needs to sustain their daily needs to continue their studies), that really contributes to our community as a whole. I can see some lights to these changes that I want for Filipino members, our local board needs more cleaning to do, thru your idea on the badge, it will create more reporters that will help clean not just our local board, but also, the whole bitcointalk. Appreciate those members who reported shit posts even without any badge.

I continue to see more Filipino contributors now, I maybe one light, but, it will continue to burn the desire for a change. Change is coming.

Non staff can't see a users banned status, correct?  Is there a reason for that?  Perhaps one "privilege" for a large number of reports could be the ability to see banned user status?

I remember having to check the modlog to see and it was a little annoying!

Edit:

How about we call it the red tree of peace!  Hell even make it "rasta" coloured and just call it the tree of peace!  It will be our little secret!  ;)

Good job everyone, looking forward to the implementation!

That's correct. Although, there can be telltale signs such as signature etc.


Probably, to prevent abuse. If someone is temp banned for a week or so, and this is public knowledge it could come up later down the line. I'm not sure about displaying banned members. It can be useful for reporting, but I guess removing their message if it infringes the guidelines is probably the right thing to do anyway.

I can dig that!  At this point it's only 9 folks (I'm quite sure you're one of them already hehe, prob a couple other staffers as well!) at the top so I don't think those users would abuse the privilege.  I just looked at it from a convenience stand point didn't think much about abuse, so fair point I guess!

couldn't resist :)

https://i.imgflip.com/2esyoh.jpg

theymos, would it be possible for a list of options a users can pick from?  Or is that just too damn confusing?  You would get to play with some more of the presented icons!

Thank you, I tried to adjust the color of line slightly as I thought it would be easier to recognize:
https://i.imgur.com/QZW7vUn.png (https://imgur.com/QZW7vUn) 300 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/MgfbWmx.png (https://imgur.com/MgfbWmx) 1000 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/GVWvWnH.png (https://imgur.com/GVWvWnH) 5000 good reports

The number of papers can be also increased like the leaf badge while size of each paper shrinks:
https://i.imgur.com/zGjkfMH.png (https://imgur.com/zGjkfMH) 300 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/c8THccy.png (https://imgur.com/c8THccy) 1000 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/Prt59Aj.png (https://imgur.com/Prt59Aj) 5000 good reports




Thank you, it is also interesting to extend them to the opposite direction with fewer leaves:
https://i.imgur.com/9qxqNHt.png (https://imgur.com/9qxqNHt)
https://i.imgur.com/W7nAL3l.png (https://imgur.com/W7nAL3l)
https://i.imgur.com/QOuwUbA.png (https://imgur.com/QOuwUbA)
https://i.imgur.com/eUsiOYk.png (https://imgur.com/eUsiOYk)
https://i.imgur.com/ksb1Nzd.png (https://imgur.com/ksb1Nzd)

Maybe I'm late, but what about these?
The mushroom cloud looks like a tree, really, but I also like the nuke theme, so I'm thinking about colourful nuclear warnings, like:
https://i.imgur.com/GC8YvDs.jpg
Found them here:
https://www.shutterstock.com/hu/image-vector/radiation-simple-symbol-radioactivity-icon-set-1109506640 (https://www.shutterstock.com/hu/image-vector/radiation-simple-symbol-radioactivity-icon-set-1109506640)

I have always wondered, why we can't see who is banned and who is not. To prevent abuse which you mentioned, temp bans shouldn't be shown, and perm bans should.

I think, best case scenario everybody should see who is banned and who is not. If that's not an option, users who actively reporting should get this privilege, as a small bonus.

I'm not sure what the benefit of knowing this information would be though. If you are reporting one of their posts then it doesn't really matter whether they are banned or not if their post is off topic/spam or what ever as it adds to the clutter of the thread.

I think it is when we report them for copy pasting it is a waste of time searching for the source if they are already banned. I guess it also wastes the moderators time going to ban them again and finding it's already done.

This. And overall would be great to know if any of reported shitposters got banned.

To me, the specific icons don’t matter, it is more about the recognition.

For selfish purposes, I think it would be nice to have an icon for those with 3,000 good reports.

It also might be beneficial to have a special sub for those with 1000 or more good reports that can be used similarly to how the staff sub is used, to report spammers, identifying trends, ban requests etc.

Just an idea:
It may also be worth to "award" the icon for smaller amount of reports as wel, maybe 50 or less. The psychological/gamification effect of wanting to improve the icon, can lead to more people joining the reporting train. ;D

I'm not to worried about getting a badge.

But please can I have one of these !?

https://i.imgur.com/WISLC3e.png

A personal Nuke button for the worst offenders.

It would be deserted. Just like the donators, and staff forum. Probably don't need another section. Its a good idea in principle, but some users are already doing it themselves in the Meta section now anyway, and its not like its disruptive or anything.

I was thinking along the lines of "tally marks", so maybe just a few scratches on the wall, 5 for lowest rank, 3x5 for highest rank.

I'm not good at producing graphics at all, so I'll just link a picture to show what I mean, this is most likely copyrighted etc., so I don't suggest we use it, but somebody should take the idea further.

https://media.istockphoto.com/vectors/tally-marks-count-or-prison-wall-sticks-lines-counter-vector-hash-vector-id892277854?k=6&m=892277854&s=612x612&w=0&h=VVkbeE6IgPhI-F1quPjnygd1FoZobDnXHUX7nfB56HM=

Whatever we do, I think it should definitely make my profile look like this someday:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4137/4872318320_9bc9e12af4_b.jpg

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@qwk

Something like this ?   :


http://up.picr.de/33345945ys.png   or better like this  http://up.picr.de/33345972ip.png

This could be a cool thing to do, and is easy to add up to in the future when more people have higher amounts of good reports. You could award 1 mark per 1000 or something. I doubt too many people are going to have high amounts which would lead to it looking unsightly.

That one.
Just 5 "scratches" for me with my lowly 400+ good reports, though ;)

And if someone really had a lot, how awesome would that look? 8)

Yeah would be Looking nice like this :

http://up.picr.de/33346060fd.png

In a few years there would be no space for this if someone keep reporting LOL  ;D

My fruits of communicating with Photoshop.

While creating this I tried to examine what we (I mean the reporters) are actually here for and what we do. Here're some thoughts (and their graphic embodiments).

1. We are here to prevent, hold back and observe.
(but not to punish; that's why I don't think that stuff like nuke mushrooms or ninja shurikens would fit it; though things like flowers and clover would be too soft)

https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/944155d687cd1622e38571d6fbf3e311.png

The eye on the hand. This has two versions: simple and "evolution" one.
Evolution is more interesting in my opinion: it not only changes the color, but also gradually "opens" the eye.
I thought that blue would be better for the second stage.

The "evolution" sequence:
https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/110a36fd1276b54deff1ab6d98209f24.png for 300 good reports;
https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/281a44e5eedc7edc569a4463f26f6a69.png for 1000 good reports;
https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/04d8beb24357b7496501a25304871834.png for 5000 good reports.

The simple sequence:
https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/2de917c4ef37b79174a2f63b2db1c183.png for 300 good reports;
https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/c3087a4cca2f137a9a161449df5e7758.png for 1000 good reports;
https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/9753fbbd1d4be09c123a33108af1ef6c.png for 5000 good reports.

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2. We keep a hand on the pulse of the community.

https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/4d45b2bc1849936960c27d242145214f.png

The pulse line in the Bitcoin background. The sequence:
https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/b2fe1dfa45b581985392f83896022d85.png for 300 good reports;
https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/bf1bfabc0cc6e47a8124e9ee99565a80.png for 1000 good reports;
https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/609cc2ad9525ea15bdf2ddf00bdee70a.png for 5000 good reports.

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Also I drew these guys (imagining reporters invisible like ghosts or something similar).

https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/3322efd1ba53631a577509821af48cb8.png

They're two though. I made the blue one also (for the second stage most likely), but didn't complete it. In fact it's not obvious that these are ghosts when they're small. The sequence is following currently:
https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/6a2fb2a860b7e7b8119a81f889e5dad8.png for 300-1000 reports;
https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/ccec735f42a241abbb624257dfe0f2bc.png for 5000 reports.

Top Rank would be Pacman, obviously, Duh! ;D


I actually think that would work pretty well and also be hilarious.
Maybe start with Pacman and you get more "blue ghosts", running from him for more reports 8)
So, top rank would look like Pacman chasing all 4 ghosts.

Edit: also, Pacman would blend in very well with the coins...

some icons from flaticon.com they are copyright free if you are a premium user

https://i.imgur.com/jB98Sf1.png 300 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/q07OIGF.png 1000 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/L1loP7l.png 5000 good reports

https://i.imgur.com/HsG01fm.png 300 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/tVDeNHN.png 1000 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/1wqShld.png 5000 good reports

https://i.imgur.com/2d96Vch.png 300 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/zWtXpMy.png 1000 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/8cZIjQq.png 5000 good reports

If this new feature admin theymos planning to add in the forum,   for sure there will be plethoras of analytical and statistical report of people who is good in reporting in different kind of section especially on local boards.
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Realtalk: i am not ruining the appetite of those who have ideas. (they are actually great).

that is actually pretty good idea, it can be something like this:

https://i.imgur.com/LtkQ2Rq.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/1SBHusb.png 300 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/LtkQ2Rq.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/1SBHusb.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/1SBHusb.png 1000 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/LtkQ2Rq.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/1SBHusb.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/1SBHusb.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/1SBHusb.png 5000 good reports

BTW, could you post a list of "top reporters" and their report count?
Preferrably along with reports per year or something.

I believe rank levels should reflect past experiences.
In the end, all top reporters of today should receive top rank right from the start.
Top rank should at the same time be realistically achievable within two years or so.
300 is certainly a good starting point, but I somehow doubt that 1000 and 5000 are wise.
I guess that someone dedicated enough could easily make a few hundred per day.
Maybe even some algorithm like activity would be appropriate.

I love it. :-*

LoL @ pac-man and qwk killing spree badges.
I do also support a badge for permanently (and temporarily?) banned account.
No need to have plagiarism badge since the user will be already banned.

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Indeed theymos, i don't mind seeing my rank in the top snitches list :P

I would also go for this :)
But the color of the ghosts should be somehow more dramatic, dark red or something similar :)
And also the badge should be off for default and have to tick the box manually to show.

But Pacman can only eat blue ghosts! :P

Edit: OTOH, the ghosts could also have the four original colors: red, pink, cyan, orange...
Maybe make them blue when the user has reported within the last 24 hours or something.
Oh man, the possibilities are endless! ;D

For reference:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/51/Pacman_title_na.png

That would be great. I love suggesting badges as I'm doing something new again but I really love those chevrons. If it's not implemented in report badge maybe we should apply it for members who received lot of Merits as a badge of honor. I wish to see those chevrons in my profile if I will be lucky to have one.

About its color, I truly support the idea of it signifies our Flag. The Blue badge which is the first badge that will be achieved signifies "truth, peace and justice" which our forum desires. The Red one which will be the second tier signifies "Valor" which is the attitude of our good reporters and the yellow one which will be the final tier, since the Yellow symbolised Philippines islands and provinces, I prefer that it signifies "Achievement" :)

I do kind of like this tally mark idea. Maybe a tally mark for each 100 valid reports submitted, and then introduce a special icon once 1,000+ reports are made? The color of the icon can symbolize whether it's 1,000, 2,500 or 5,000+ reports?

I do also like the star badges to coincide with the existing themes.

Maybe you can consider this and just edit how many stars they have.
http://prntscr.com/kbvkdr also just a suggestion since we are putting badge for those reporter why dont we also add this image to the untrusted members of the forum http://prntscr.com/kbvksp

I have a concept, but I think it would be very nice to design it  https://i.imgur.com/IxhpLxM.png

After  a quick glance through the responses, I like the pacman one. But would it result in legal problems related to copyright ?

Hi. Maybe something like this. Medals it's cool

https://image.ibb.co/j6Ci4T/place_award_prize_trophy_winner_medal_badge_first_34dfeb5f61039a21_16x16.png (https://imgbb.com/) 300 reports
https://image.ibb.co/gRTO4T/place_first_medal_award_winner_prize_3cff255117631a09_16x16.png (https://imgbb.com/) 1000 reports
https://image.ibb.co/nLs5Jo/place_first_medal_prize_award_winner_30c05f5344713514_16x16.png (https://imgbb.com/) 5000 reports

For example
https://image.ibb.co/dv4fjT/300.png (https://imgbb.com/) for 300
https://image.ibb.co/mky6PT/image.png (https://imgbb.com/) for 1000
https://image.ibb.co/kc9fjT/image.png (https://imgbb.com/) for 5000

I think it's good idea. Unfortunately I'm Newbie. So if u want to see icon please follow the link

Quoting so everyone can see your images.

FYI, I like the medals, as you can tell what it is, even at the 16px size.

And I have second variant. Simple minimalism. Because this actual now


https://image.ibb.co/frBcg8/1000_16.png (https://imgbb.com/) for 300
https://image.ibb.co/eSBooo/300_16.png (https://imgbb.com/) for 1000
https://image.ibb.co/bPcuTo/5000_16.png (https://imgbb.com/) for 5000

So it will look like this. For example

https://image.ibb.co/iKsB8o/2_300.png (https://imgbb.com/) for 300

https://image.ibb.co/fJKr8o/2_100.png (https://imgbb.com/)
or
https://image.ibb.co/cjoUuT/2.png (https://imgbb.com/) for 1000


and
https://image.ibb.co/ffVL18/2_5000.png (https://imgbb.com/)
or
https://image.ibb.co/kUGFZT/2.png (https://imgbb.com/)

P.S. I would be grateful if someone showed the icons. And for merit too

I think I agree with theymos here after seeing the amount of creative ideas for badges I think we need to find more reasons to have badges, and I'm excited to see what comes of the courses, and how it will tie in with the badges.

Keep it simple, these erasers are very good and they send the message correctly. whatever you are going to pick, I want my badge as soon as possible, come on admin. ;)
I can't believe that we have less than 200 reporters from more than 2M accounts, having the badge could also help merit sources to keep an eye out for good reporters and give them special treatment by finding their meritorious  posts first before others.

Agreed, that would be better. However, I've suggested this before in other threads, and it didn't get implemented. That's why I tried the second best option: a "banned badge".

It's useless work for the user too, and would safe all parties time if it can be prevented. If that time can be used to report others, the banned tag can actually help cleaning the forum.

I wouldn't mind if this would be set as an Avatar for all banned accounts (if it's possible to add an Avatar to banned Newbies). Seeing accounts get banned could scare other users into following the rules (I hope).

Does the forum keep track of the reason why users have been banned in the past?
I'm not sure about the color coding, I can imagine many banned users would fit several categories.

I would like that, but I prefer to be able to see the banned status without being logged in (so I can scrape it).

Temp bans don't show up in modlog, and I wouldn't want to see temp bans in profiles. It's only useful to know which users won't ever come back.

Most spambots above Newbie only get banned, their spam stays on the forum forever. I care much more about getting a spambot banned than just having a post deleted.

I think a badger for 1000 or 2000 or whatever merits is unnecessary.
Merit already shows off in your profile. And the forum's discussions are too focused on merit already.

Badges could try to move the attention somewhere else...

Maybe something more bitcoin related. A community helper badger? I see some users like bob123 that are always helping users in the Technical Support board....

Or maybe a badger for a user that have completed bitcointalk courses (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4609442)?

It's really good to see that the badges you made serves as a tribute for the Filipinos. Well, my thoughts about these icons make me feel that I should put more effort on making a contribution to our community. Some of the people have a mindset of automatically considering Filipinos as a Shitposters, then it will create a revolution to be better and to have a way for the great development of us.

Having these kind of icons really inspires me to do the cleaning in our local to avoid all the shitposters. From the start, we already making a move on this case.

Regarding about the icon, it's simple and aesthetic to look at. The three colors representing the color of our flag is really amazing.

I think it's too early for this. I doubt theymos is going to introduce a badge for which only he (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=topusersat) qualifies (>2000), with only satoshi reaching the badge for 1000+.

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Note the difference (image from Amazon (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Small-Button-Novelty-Badger-Badge/dp/B004I9R386)):
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31OjbvRbKVL.jpg

If you go to the Altcoin board, you can find thousands of posts worth deleting with no effort at all. It's very boring, and feels completely useless to do, but makes it very easy to quickly get thousands of good reports.

I imagine this as a megaphone (because this draws attention to the message). Here's what I drew but I'm not sure about the color...

https://image.ibb.co/crzY4T/2.png (https://imgbb.com/) for 300 reports
https://image.ibb.co/eQnvjT/4.png (https://imgbb.com/) for 1000 reports
https://image.ibb.co/fWgcyo/3.png (https://imgbb.com/) for 5000 reports

That's how it might look like.
https://image.ibb.co/mPp0jT/1.jpg (https://imgbb.com/)https://image.ibb.co/gbu0jT/2.jpg (https://imgbb.com/)https://image.ibb.co/ehY4B8/3.jpg (https://imgbb.com/)

P.S. Gentlemen, if you have ideas about color, tell me and I will change the color maybe it will look better!!

Well you could still see the posts of the banned user and you will be able to report it to mod but The user is already banned.

It would really just be okay if it is one so that you would just know that the user is banned. Well, it’s no sense to put different categories to banned users. They are all banned. Probably just the red one.

Dear @theymos I think it would be better not to start this process.

Why not start the process....
1. If this process is introduced then many will report unnecessarily. This may cause more suffering.
2. If anybody does not have any profit by launching this method then why will people report in the name of others?
3. People want to upgrade their rank. He will not see how many reports he has on his profile.
4. If you use a symbol, it will be in a limitation, there will be no Count of how many reports it has made, in which case a person can stop by a limited report, so I do not think there will be any benefit from this process.

If this method is to be used...
1. It would be better not to start any type of batch system. In this case, you will be able to use it in other ways, for example, I will show you the following. 
https://i.imgur.com/Ns2lqrA.png

If you use Like this, then it will be noticed by everyone. 

2.  If you want to use a symbol, then you can choose some symbols from here. Personally, I like this sign, if you use this symbol, it is not bad.

I have given some arguments as to why it should be used or why it should not be used to use this symbol. If you feel positive about it, then think again.

@mdayonliner, You can find all thing If you search on google But Your icon is not copyright-free. You must submit a copyright free icon as theymos Said that

After introducing icon badges maybe some of you must also suggest how to do a good report.

  Is reports reviewed by mods?  If there are  badges already?  

This looks good as well, it seems there are plenty of good icons to choose from now.
Would have been nice if the community could have voted for it, once a subset of images has been selected.

There is already a guide for this:  [Guide] Reporting effectively (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4519248.msg40698575#msg40698575)

I can’t understand all your arguments properly. Nevertheless, reports will be validated by mods, so any wrong report will be rejected and thus will not lead to wrongful harm to anyone. Just a cleaner forum and more work for the mods and admins.

It seems the idea here is to encourage more people to report. I certainly used the forum for a very long time before I ever used the report button, I just never thought about it. From what I understand the problem is unreported spam, not unnecessary reports. People that haven't got to 300 reports yet will not have seen the Your reports page and this text "Do not worry about your accuracy too much; one accurate report is worth many inaccurate reports."

Actually, tally marks are associated with imprisonment or some sort of durance (at least for me). I doubt that reporters wear the striped suits.:)


Or maybe ghosts added one by one and Pacman in the end like the final prize for the highest rank.:)
Unfortunately, it's unlikely to be implemented since Pacman itself is for sure law protected (unlike ghosts - untill their appearance doesn't resemble jellyfishes I guess).


Stars are simple - something that we call "lying on surface". Though it's not bad of course.
Helping hand is... conceptual. But I'm not sure that it's meaning is obvious.


Personally I don't like medals, shoulder straps, stripes on sleeves, cops caps, sheriff badges and other stuff that concerns militarism and other attributes of "duty persons". Reporting is not duty related yet, and these symbols are too strict.


Probably (at least I know that other SMF-forums have their internal banlists (https://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?action=download;mod=1198;id=56138;image)). But it seems that mods have to write (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1273656.msg13131013#msg13131013) the ban reason themselves (if it's not autoban), so it'd be difficult to align the badges with particular reasons (the static list of reasons to choose from is needed for that). Or it could be realized as additional option so mods can choose the badge for every ban. Thus the list would stick the bandge automatically, but possibly require to rewrite a great banch of code to work. And the option can seriously slow down the mods' work since they'd be distracted by the choice of badges.


Regarding the megaphone I think that gold should be the one to start from. The second one can be green (of different shade perhaps) and the final one should be red.

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Why? It's just an image.


And why do they even report? It's already a process that doesn't involve thousands.


People already can look at their reports' amount (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3922020.0) if they have 25 good reports or more.


Something tells me that those who have thousands of reports don't think about limits. And I doubt that image can change this.

At first look, I didn't recognised that it's a hand, after reading the above quote where you said that it's a hand and looked again at the image. I still can't recognise that it is a hand. I don't know why but I'm pretty sure that my eyes are working fine. It seems like a yellow person looking at some sort of files in his hand and in side view.  Though, I love those stars of yours more than these hands :) They're quite simple and looks good.

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You might be right. But this badge will somehow encourage members that is too lazy to use "report to Moderator" button. It may cause suffering but Moderators are the only one who will encounter such problems that's why you have nothing to worry about. It seemed they agreed with it (also some members including me) so there's no much problem.

And how can you assure that many will report unnecessarily, don't you have trust in our fellow members?  :D
It's voluntary, it's up to them if they want to participate reporting. If they want to achieve the badge then they will surely help but if they don't want to, it will be just fine too. No punishment.
Actually you can see how many reports you have if you've already reported more than 50, but yes you were right, it's not shown in profile. Just click "Report to Moderator" button from any reply and you'll be able to see something like this.
After reaching 300 Good Reports you will be able to see your report history.
Something like BTCforJOE said might included in the implementation of the badge. If the pointer of the mouse is hovered in the badge a text will show up giving you information about how many Good Reports, bad reports and unhandled reports you have.

And yes, there will be no benefit. Like what I said it's just voluntary.

Any further questions? :)

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTxDJT51yymdd-1BVNdaSFixS06nhYnHmciL2lAMg5bwPBa0OTA_w

I thought it was a foetus.


I like this idea. Pacman is quite quirky.

That's exactly what it is  :D Man, I'm surprised.

It's so funny  :D, now I can't stop laughing silently. It's your fault xtraelv.

Will it be announced to all "such as rank coins" or appear in certain boards "trust system and technical badges"?
I hope that each board "Especially local boards" has a dedicated badge based on the highest reports in that board

So far this is my favorite.

I personally had been trying to find images that would resemble, April O'neil for 300, Spiderman for 1000, and Superman for 5000; but I failed.

Then in a slightly combative mood I found these 3
https://i.imgur.com/NbJ6w2U.png   300
https://i.imgur.com/9SQPAFL.png   1000
https://i.imgur.com/NtTKq8G.png   5000

Images were found here (https://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=sword&license=1&price=free#).

I try to create & modify it

https://talkimg.com/images/2023/05/17/blobb72baa9596f1a4b7.png?1 = 300 good report
https://talkimg.com/images/2023/05/17/blobec0abfc7f8133e51.png?1 = 1000 good report
https://talkimg.com/images/2023/05/17/blob07373eb9d9704502.png?1 = 5000 good report

some mockups :
https://talkimg.com/images/2023/05/17/blob4abc9b4fbc0025fa.png?1  https://talkimg.com/images/2023/05/17/blob50cdc2c0e76bac03.png?1  https://talkimg.com/images/2023/05/17/blob211296fe0b3741ac.png?1

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https://talkimg.com/images/2023/05/17/blob460ef4c03f8964df.png?1 = 300 good report
https://talkimg.com/images/2023/05/17/blobff29642521352ca3.png?1 = 1000 good report
https://talkimg.com/images/2023/05/17/blob9031ad0c9c695c60.png?1 = 5000 good report

some mockups :
https://talkimg.com/images/2023/05/17/bloba280f03dca1d5f08.png?1  https://talkimg.com/images/2023/05/17/blobc81cdb6fc9878b34.png?1  https://talkimg.com/images/2023/05/17/blobba9fa9f76b25ca3b.png?1

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https://talkimg.com/images/2023/05/17/blob457c655792963acc.png

Reference: 1 (https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/victory-symbols-set_719923.htm), 2 (https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/first-place-award-gold-medal-with-red-ribbon_1311024.htm)

In addition to the icons, a good incentive to facilitate the work of "reporters" would be to include them in the whitelist with at least 100 good reports.

Because the delay in writing reports is sometimes very disturbing.

It's something to strive for. No point adding something that everybody is going to have or get straight away. It would be meaningless then. Merit is still young and it won't be that long before some people start reaching it, but for those that do it should be rewarded with a badge (and possibly some other privileges should come along with it).


Plenty of things have been suggested by numerous people to try combat a wide variety of issues, but rarely anything gets implemented that is suggested whether it's a good idea or not.


It's a waste of everyone's time. Not sure why it would be much of deal to alert people that a user is banned. Many other forums have such a feature. I've seen ones before that change their rank to banned, or even change their avatar to a prohibited sign:

https://cdn-01.media-brady.com/store/stuk/media/wysiwyg/STUK/CMS/prohibited-symbol/general-prohibition.jpg


You could say the same thing about the rank badges. Rank is already displayed so why do we need the coins? Also, who gets to decide who is 'helpful' or not for the "community helper" badge? What do you measure helpfulness in? Why not let merit be the decider of that? If someone is getting a ridiculous amount of merit then I think it's safe to say that they're pretty helpful or are a worthwhile contributor. Why wouldn't the "community helper" badge also "move the attention somewhere else"?

Guys I create 3 variant icons for reports.

So first variant my favorite. Because hi causes association with protection forum.
https://image.ibb.co/kDJi4T/16Bronze.png (https://imgbb.com/) 300 good report
https://image.ibb.co/ePkVjT/16Silver.png (https://imgbb.com/) 1000 good report
https://image.ibb.co/j2JSW8/16Gold.png (https://imgbb.com/) 5000 good report

It's look like this

https://image.ibb.co/g3Ji4T/300.png (https://imgbb.com/) https://image.ibb.co/m3Szdo/1000.png (https://imgbb.com/) https://image.ibb.co/cePO4T/5000.png (https://imgbb.com/)

Second variant
https://image.ibb.co/nn9F18/Untitled_2.png (https://imgbb.com/) 300 good report
https://image.ibb.co/cjXqZT/Untitled.png (https://imgbb.com/) 1000 good report
https://image.ibb.co/kMj4uT/5000.png (https://imgbb.com/) 5000 good report

It's look like this

https://image.ibb.co/gSAkZT/300_2.png (https://imgbb.com/) https://image.ibb.co/iPDKTo/1000_S.png (https://imgbb.com/) https://image.ibb.co/jPPR8o/5000_S.png (https://imgbb.com/)

Third variant

https://image.ibb.co/cphM8o/300_3.png (https://imgbb.com/) 300 good report
https://image.ibb.co/etw3M8/Untitled.png (https://imgbb.com/) 1000 good report
https://image.ibb.co/m3UOM8/5000_3.png (https://imgbb.com/) 5000 good report

It's look like this

https://image.ibb.co/mS5Yoo/300_S1.png (https://imgbb.com/) https://image.ibb.co/m2xooo/1000_S1.png (https://imgbb.com/) https://image.ibb.co/e635ZT/5000_S1.png (https://imgbb.com/)




Also I think that should be icons for banned and merit source

For example for ban
https://image.ibb.co/bQGL18/Untitled.png (https://imgbb.com/) temporary ban
https://image.ibb.co/cZxhET/image.png (https://imgbb.com/) permanent ban

It's look like this
https://image.ibb.co/ig3doo/image.png (https://imgbb.com/) https://image.ibb.co/fhxFZT/image.png (https://imgbb.com/)

And for merit source something like this
https://image.ibb.co/iT7hET/merit.png (https://imgbb.com/) merit source

It will look like this
https://image.ibb.co/epipuT/image.png (https://imgbb.com/)


Icons will be useful. They are simple and informative

That would lead to people creating fake posts to report, just to be awarded with whitelisted accounts, which in turn they would sell.

Do we really need badge for merit source? I think if we give badge for merit source, a lot people will know it and lot people will PM them and beg for merit, just my opinion.

I think this is a good option.
https://image.ibb.co/h7zO4T/book1.png (https://imgbb.com/) 300 good report       https://image.ibb.co/cOQVjT/book2.png (https://imgbb.com/) 1000 good report     https://image.ibb.co/eXfPB8/book3.png (https://imgbb.com/) 5000 good report

https://image.ibb.co/gjaD4T/Screenshot_6.jpg (https://imgbb.com/)https://image.ibb.co/csiBr8/Screenshot_2.jpg (https://imgbb.com/)https://image.ibb.co/cpi5Jo/Screenshot_3.jpg (https://imgbb.com/)

https://bitcointalk.org/useravatars/avatar_55384.png

https://i.imgur.com/VGxmwaz.png

I think Foxpup (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=55384) will like that one.  ;D


The colors give a terrible impression. How can a red report be "good" ?  ;D

I think that we can try. Give icons to 10 people for example. Becouse I actually don't knows how many people in this forum "merit source".  If it's will be like you wrote then it will be possible to remove.

Merit sources aren't publicly known or listed for good reasons. People would likely hassle them for merits etc.

Highly unlikely, but IANAL.
First, I don't think that a tiny icon with a humorous reference to a classic video game may be considered a breach of copyright at all.
Second, Namco opened the rights to Pac-Man and a few other games a while ago, explicitly allowing artwork that would usually fall under "derivative works":
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-03-31/bandai-namco-opens-rights-to-pac-man-80s-game-properties/.86558

Fair use covers parody.

Besides - They are available royalty free on shutterstock.
https://www.shutterstock.com/search/pacman (https://www.shutterstock.com/search/pacman)
https://i.imgur.com/wntIIz7.png

Yes, but this concerns the development of video games based on that universe, not the use of a character design in a whole. Also these "derivative works" need to be registered somewhere in Namco's halls and their creators should pay the "tribute" if the game is commercial (or allow the ads):


Also Google said, it's highly possible (https://www.t-shirtforums.com/graphics-design-help/t546322.html) that Pacman is registered as trademark. In that case anyone who would use it's depiction without permission can be sued. Though it depends on the degree the new character resembles the original Pacman and what the new character's created for, but all of this would have to be proven in court (https://www.quora.com/Can-I-use-a-Pac-Man-character-in-my-music-video-and-upload-to-YouTube-Would-it-be-an-issue-with-copyright) if the copyright holder won't appreciate the parody.

I just assume that it's risky and may require more actions rather then just draw a picture.

More topic-related links:
https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/19544/would-fair-use-apply-to-the-usage-of-pac-man-within-a-qr-code
https://www.quora.com/Copyright-Infringement-Can-you-use-a-popular-image-in-non-commercial-communications
https://smallbusiness.chron.com/fair-use-logos-2152.html
https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html


Perhaps shutterstock has a license.

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In fact before I saw the original image, I thought that I'm looking at frying pan.:)


Actually that icon is more suitable for libraries or pocket book applications.


Interesting variant - especially when it's single.

No we don't.

I report PM-beggars to Admin, hoping they get banned. PM beggars also risk getting added to the ignore list (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4739176.msg42802852#msg42802852), or receiving red trust (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=1148187). It doesn't happen much anyway, beggars must be extremely dumb to risk their account for a few Merit points.

83 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=sources)

Also a hand pointing something could work as a reminder of the meaning behind it, just an example of it(image with Copyright):
https://us.123rf.com/450wm/micromaniacdesign/micromaniacdesign1709/micromaniacdesign170900072/86313792-stock-vector-a-professional-pixel-aligned-icon-designed-on-a-32x32-pixel-grid-and-redesigned-on-a-16x16-pixel-gri.jpg

I also make medals. Ranking medals: bronze, silver, gold.


my work

https://image.ibb.co/bSviOo/5000.png (https://imgbb.com/) best results (5000)
https://image.ibb.co/imXV3o/1000.png (https://imgbb.com/) good results (1000)
https://image.ibb.co/ghKopT/300.png (https://imgbb.com/) results (300)

Or someone could just send them a letter asking for permission - in which case you have absolutely no copyright issues.

Because there is nothing to guarantee that someones original design that they are submitting doesn't resemble an existing design and therefore infringe copyright or trademark.

From what I have read is that they were granting people the rights to use the characters - so a letter stating that it can be used (Even though it would fall under fair use as a parody) would be the absolute safest option.

Maybe it makes sense to make some of the most interesting sets of pictures to vote https://b.radikal.ru/b26/1807/ee/5827f0cc70b0.png (https://radikal.ru)

Hello everyone!) I saw the topic and decided to try to make a small contribution to the life of the forum)

The first icon (in the form of a rescue circle) symbolizes advice for beginners, as well as assistance in moderating.
https://image.ibb.co/dHu8pT/1.png (https://imgbb.com/)

That's how I see it
https://image.ibb.co/iPJZUT/Screens1.png (https://imgbb.com/) https://image.ibb.co/fkBtOo/Screen2.png (https://imgbb.com/) https://image.ibb.co/iUBhG8/Screen3.png (https://imgbb.com/)
https://image.ibb.co/d5Mcio/Screens4.png (https://imgbb.com/)

The second option is a set of binoculars (a symbol of attention and search).
https://image.ibb.co/h6djUT/1.png (https://imgbb.com/) Bronze
https://image.ibb.co/mEdq3o/Screenshot_1.png (https://imgbb.com/)
https://image.ibb.co/mxQ9w8/2.png (https://imgbb.com/) silver
https://image.ibb.co/mxQ9w8/2.png (https://imgbb.com/)
https://image.ibb.co/dfyOOo/3.png (https://imgbb.com/) and gold
https://image.ibb.co/dfyOOo/3.png (https://imgbb.com/)
https://image.ibb.co/drwGb8/Screens4.png (https://imgbb.com/)

Well, the third option is a Cup, as a symbol of the award for the effort to improve the forum.

https://image.ibb.co/hX8b9T/2.png (https://imgbb.com/) Silver
https://image.ibb.co/kuQZw8/Screenshot_1.png (https://imgbb.com/)
https://image.ibb.co/mHDhio/1.png (https://imgbb.com/) gold
https://image.ibb.co/h0Csio/Screenshot_2.png (https://imgbb.com/)
https://image.ibb.co/bP069T/3.png (https://imgbb.com/) and emerald
https://image.ibb.co/cVqdOo/Screenshot_3.png (https://imgbb.com/)
https://image.ibb.co/i1Ajw8/Screens4.png (https://imgbb.com/)

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If you want to see the icons, click on the link.
sorry for the inconvenience..

Quoted for images.

The meta section is clogged with lots of junk threads and these types of reports can easily get overlooked. Also a dedicated section would help filter these reports to those who have a history of making good reports.

I think some sort of hidden board accessible only to people after they've received a certain amount of merit could be a good idea. I think it would be like Serious Discussion, but for only those who have earned their right to post in there. There's still a lot of crap that gets posted in Serious Discussion (either by kids, idiots, or people who haven't worked out posts don't count in there). Yes, the 'donator' board is pretty dead, but that's because there's very few donators and even fewer that are still active. I think that hidden board would be a nice reward for the 'best' posters and would ensure only the best get to post in there. You could even combine the merit requirement with reports in some fashion, maybe something like 2000 merit and 500 reports or something. OR have two boards: One for reports and another for meritorious posters. I think there should be some sort of privileges to reward higher quality contributors and reporters and these would be nice little perks.

Hi guys. I created second pack medals icons.

You can see icons for website

https://image.ibb.co/j5XWto/300.png (https://imgbb.com/) it's for 300
https://image.ibb.co/g0a6R8/302032.png (https://imgbb.com/) it's for 1000
https://image.ibb.co/fCW2zT/5000.png (https://imgbb.com/) it's for 5000


In page it's will be look
https://image.ibb.co/ncYt68/300.png (https://imgbb.com/)
https://image.ibb.co/d7kjDo/1000.png (https://imgbb.com/)
https://image.ibb.co/bJxxYo/5000.png (https://imgbb.com/)

Theymos I think that u can make a column like "Activity" or "Merit". I don't know what fonts you use, so sorry for my fonts.

https://image.ibb.co/nycaKT/3_00.png (https://imgbb.com/)
https://image.ibb.co/cenxYo/10_00.png (https://imgbb.com/)
https://image.ibb.co/j756R8/50_00.png (https://imgbb.com/)

Quoted for visibility since the user is newbie.

Where the count of unhandled reports  will be counted?
Good or bad ?


Currently when I see  the forum percentage, it actually counted in good only but definition considered them as "soft bad". Some kind of  contradiction is here.

For Profile, I think we should not ever display % or bad report count. (I agree % is important but below also hold true)

It won't show since that's an unnecessary stats. The point of those badges is to "reward" those who have a big number of good reports (encouraging them to report more) and not make them afraid of having bad reports. And having a few bad/unhandled reports is not bad (as explained in the reports page).

It is great to see that our Administrator and other staff members here are appreciating the works of my fellow members, I'm happy to see that we Filipinos are contributing for the betterment of the forum even though we have a difficulty in writing in the English Language as this is not our mother tongue. I salute theyoungmillionaire for bearing his light to us in making changes for our local board as well.

For the "Reporter Badge Images" I really like the idea of implementing this. It will encourage people who really want an improvement to the discussion quality of our forum. But what will happen if some noobies will abuse this kind of reporting?

A little off topic.

While were making changes regarding reporting, can we:

• After reporting return to the post you reported, instead of to the main board
• Can we also get a PM sent, notifying you submitted a report with a link to the post.

The second suggestion could be useful to the members before they hit 300 reports in identifying which posts they've reported.

Sometimes I go on a reporting spree and do ~30 reports in the Altcoin/Off-topic board. Meanwhile, Welsh has almost 30k reports (which means that he would have received 30k PM in his box).

Sorry, but this isn't a good idea. Hitting 300 good reports isn't that hard.

I can see where it might not work for you or Welsh, but it is really as simple as deleting the message(s) if it's of no use to you. 2 clicks and you can delete a whole page of messages.

For me personally it would have been useful at times, in lieu of anything identifying a post as having been reported. I know this has been suggested as well and would be ideal for any sub 300 reporter.

Either way it was just an idea being tossed out there.

The moment that happens, I'll stop reporting posts.

It would be much better if the Report to moderator link turns red for any post reported by you.

Well let's just tuck that little guy in the same pile as KYC. Obviously not worth it.

It would be much better if the Report to moderator link turns red for any post reported by you.
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Agreed, not even just for posts you've reported. Anything reported in general, this would prevent duplicate reports.

After further communication with Google it turns out that:

1. The idea itself can not be copyrighted (http://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/can-you-copyright-an-idea) - copyright law concerns the embodiment/expression only.
2. If someone's design in fact resembles the design of "another someone" substantially, it infringes the copyright law (https://design-milk.com/six-things-every-designer-know-copyright/).
3. Trademark law would be infringed if someone's design will somehow affect the reputation, market position etc of the original brand since trademarks exist "to distinguish goods and services from those manufactured or sold by others" (from here (https://smallbusiness.chron.com/differences-between-copyright-trademark-3218.html)), to ensure that "consumers can easily identify a particular company as the source of a product" and to encourage "brand loyalty" (both from here (https://info.legalzoom.com/trademarks-duration-23713.html)).

According to these if you go out with the idea of something eating something in the maze, you do not violate the copyrights of Pacman owners. But if you use the original design of Pacman without permission - you do. And if your scheme somehow affects the brand, you additionally violate the trademark law.

More topic-related links:
Article about copyright limitations (USA) (https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/stopping-internet-plagiarism/your-copyrights-online/limitations-of-copyright/) | Article about trademark limitations (USA) (http://www.iusmentis.com/trademarks/crashcourse/limitations/)
Comparision of copyright and trademark (graphical) (https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-0a98c116d281cc327533746a7ca513e6) | Article about differences between copyright and trademark (https://smallbusiness.chron.com/differences-between-copyright-trademark-3218.html)


Correct. But this could require not one letter but entire correspondence process (since bitcointalk.org is not some tiny unknown resource from the back of the Internet). I'm not sure that theymos wants to deal with this (since he stated the "copyright-free" (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4742257.msg42821426#msg42821426)) - and that Namco won't claim a tangible refund.

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Most likely I wouldn't use it also, but it could be optional. The question is how many users find it useful (and thus how expedient the development is) - something tells me that they're few.

I also want to offer an idea for icons. When the reduce a picture, the image itself is spoiled, but you can see him.
Whatever the image, it should have the following colors: green, blue and red.

Green is for the newbie members.
Blue is for workers.
Red for professionals.

https://preview.ibb.co/jxqFM8/theymos.jpg (https://ibb.co/dYmpg8) https://image.ibb.co/hbfPg8/theymos2.jpg (https://imgbb.com/)


Next, when you hover over the icon, it will be written how many reports were from.

This is original picture.
https://image.ibb.co/kqcy8o/theymos3.jpg (https://imgbb.com/)

I found many more icons that would match this work.
https://preview.ibb.co/nhGGTo/theymos4.jpg (https://ibb.co/k2ykM8)

I d`nt agree that the final one should be red.


The xtraelv was right, red and really not suitable.


I d`nt agree, it will be useful. Our community, as it turned out, loves all sorts of achievements, so I think that there will always be new "reporters".

Is this guy just did a Plagiarism?


Original

khaterina is the most insolent copy-paster member which I met on the forum!)))

To add to this suggestion, I think being given some sort of title after receiving x amount of merit would be nice. I was thinking something like Meritous, but that doesn't seem to be a word haha, but 'Meritorious' is which sounds even better:


Contributor could also be another one, or maybe the entry level choice for a smaller amount of merit received (though still and impressive amount). I think those sorts of titles would show who actually contributes something worthwhile here and would be something everybody could strive for.


Agreed. Don't see why this would be needed. If it was implemented though people should be able to toggle the notifications on/off.


That what I thought initially when I saw it, but I think he might have just messed the quote up. Check his other posts for any other examples as if he's a copy and paster there will likely be more.

How about something like this, it illustrates what we actually do while reporting..  >
Someone with more time and skills can easily create something similar :)
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/cv-review-icon-elements-human-resource-multi-colored-icons-business-sign-looking-talent-search-man-v-job-white-114670930.jpg
 

Yes, of course! It is possible to send 300 reports in 1 day!

I like this ☠

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☠☠
☠☠☠

Possible, but not many users are willing to do it. I guess with the incentive of badges it will increase the likelihood of users that didn't report before to start too, but that's only a good thing in my opinion.

More badges can be added for higher amounts once we start seeing more people earn the current badges though.

Why it should be skull?
Good icon tho but i think we should create an icon that will make you really special.

these icons caught my eye and really inspires some members to report all the shitposting specially in discussions and local.

Military badges, it makes me think that im a special ops, busting around some shitposts/spammers.

these ribbons, award from the higher ups for busting spammers.

and the last;

it feels me like naruto; shinobi reporter! i found it cool so yeah thumbs up for this.

If this is possible then i might continue my journey to report some spam posts in our community. @Welsh, I also read your guide for reporting some posts. I currently have 40+ good reports...

I have to admit it's a boring and robotic job LOL

 
The badges will work like tonic IMO. Members will see the badges on other profiles or under their usernames and they will get curious to know about it. Out of curiosity they will start reporting and who knows from them we may find someone who will wear the toppest badge.

Imagine every single member has reported at least 10 posts - meaning 428,364 (https://bpip.org/) * 10 = 4,283,640 (over 4 and a quarter millions) reports! Welsh and other mod gang... get ready for the biggest flood of the history  :P

Could we have a set of badges to select from? I want to have the ability to pick my own badge, maybe we could grant this special access to several badges to select from to people with more than 1000 reports?
For example, I want the eraser badge.

This is becoming very PizzaunderthedoorthanxMom-esque.

Then we need to increase the number to get the badge. How about 30k report as the first milestone for the badge?

I think 300 is enough, it's possible for those people who has the knowledge on what posts to report. But if you're not quite good on reporting some shitposts then maybe it'll give you many bad reports.

It's just an additional badge or maybe an additional challenge for us to diminish all the shitposters in the forum. For me, the green trust is the greatest reward to achieve by each of us.

Being able to choose your own would just be unnecessary confusing if everyone had a different badge for the exact same thing and that's why they should be uniform as the badge means something and should be easily identifiable. I think people should be able to disable them if they don't like them or wish to be displayed though.


It would be very difficult and incredibly time-consuming to do 300 in one day. If people start spamming the report queue very quickly just to hit their targets then the minimum should should be made higher. Maybe 300 is too low to start with in the first place. 30k is too high though. 500 or 100 would be a good start I think as I'm sure once badges are awarded people will step up their report game.

I can probably do it within an hour in almost any altcoin thread, but it feels so useless.
For reporting homograph spambots (to get the user accounts banned, not just the post deleted), I can report about 40 in 15 minutes. Seeing them all nuked is very satisfying!

Shouldn't it be considered a good thing if people start reporting more bad posts?
Since only 195 users qualify (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4742257.msg42951125#msg42951125) at the moment, I don't think it should be higher.

Not really. There's a couple of users who have just started frantically spamming the report queue recently with hundreds of reports a day probably because theymos announced the possibility of merit badges. It's clear some of them are actually just looking for things to report because they're reporting old threads that haven't been posted in for ages just to be 'locked' or spam posts from ages ago. Just saw one report from January on a spam post. Is that really essential? Nobody will see or miss that post whether it's there or not. Do I really need to waste my time deleting hundreds of posts long buried in a bounty thread? All it does is swamp the queue with things that are either going to take a long time to handle or not get handled at all and increases the chances of us missing something important that needs handling urgently.

There probably should be two report buttons or two queues or something. One for urgent things and the other one for sig spam or whatever. Maybe there could be dedicated mods/patrollers that handle the sig spam etc. There's thousands of spammers and bots making thousands of posts so it's never-ending.

I started reporting a lot more when I read some report stats last year. There were no badges yet to be earned, so I can imagine this thread made more people aware of the possibility.

I'm kinda guilty of that too (when I go after accounts to be nuked), and I report many of them. But they're recent and active accounts.
When I stumble upon old bad posts, I sometimes report them too, but those are exceptions.

Like this one (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2223417.msg22590592#msg22590592)? That's a waste of time indeed.

Same for me! There's barely any feedback on reports, sometimes I get a "thanks!", but that's it. Without any message, I assume I'm doing the forum a favour.

I don't think you can  :P
The time between two reports for me is 9 seconds. So for 300 reports you will need 2700 secs meaning 45 pure minutes. Add up the seconds that needs to move from one page to another. Say 2 seconds each that's 600 more secs which is more 10 minutes. This is only in theory though. You really think practically you can?  ;D

PS: Consider the frustration of doing same thing for total of 55 minutes without a break  :P

It's 4 seconds (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1689727.0) for me. You'll lose 1 second every 50 Activity until you hit the minimum. On LoyceMobile (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1903546) it's more than half a minute (any chance it can be whitelisted?).

FYI For Sr. Member and up the "cool down" time is 4 seconds :D
Often I do report what I see in the Patrol page, so basically is worthless. Most of the time I report posts written in other languages outside the Local section and the Homographs.
BTW If my reporting manners are not good enough, please let me know so we both don't waste time and effort.
I'm aiming for a ban/nuke kind of reports and homographs but.. it's not easy.


Ups you were quicker then me.
Yes, I was whitelisted  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3152014.0)when I was a member but lost this privilege after I ranked up to Full member.

I checked - it's real. I've sent over 800 good reports in 24 hours with 100% accuracy!

Yes, a good start will be 500-1000 report!

Sometimes I think I have short time memory loss problem LOL

How do you get yourself whitelisted by the way, if anyone care to shoot me the link?  Too lazy to hit the search button, besides rushing to see the doctor with wife. Today we might know the gander of the first baby we are expecting  :)

I think some Mods and users can whitelist users.

how to tell the gender of your goose… or gander (http://bramblewoodhill.com/gender-goose-geese/)
I mean Congratulations!

Or, if the system lists the reported post sorted by the date of creation... So useless old reported post will stay on the end of the list, and they won't become a good report soon. This will make the report spammers search for fresh spam post...
(Or, to create spam post with alt account, and report them immediately, so they will stay on the top... but I doubt that they will create spam posts just for the report badge :) )

Gender  I mean. My me and my my my typo  :P
Thanks mate.

Can anyone be kind enough to me to whitelist my username please? It's for reporting flexibility of course.

Why do you think colors are terrible?
But you can see such colors in every country, for example traffic lights have like these one.
And what colors are good for you?

Actually I agree with xtraelv, red was never been used in any kind of Good situation IMO. As you know, color red was always used in some bad situation or condition just for example is in our devices battery percentage indicator. When the status of battery is good it is in green color and turns red when it's in critical condition. Same as in danger zones, red was used as a sign. Now my question is why do you chose Red as the color of the "Good report Badge"? You can use green instead.

I prefer using these color arrangements.

It depends on culture. For instance, in Western countries white is associated with purity and peace, while people in some Asian countries use it to bury the dead (https://design4users.com/2017/03/15/design-for-diversity-of-cultures-perception-of-colors/). Purple is "the color of honor" in the US and also associated with nobility and royalty, but in Thailand and Brazil it's a color of mourning (https://www.shutterstock.com/blog/color-symbolism-and-meanings-around-the-world). And so is the red: for example, in China it's a color of fortune and joy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_in_Chinese_culture#Red) which is traditionally used for wedding gowns (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_dress#Eastern_culture).

With a Chinese blood, I confirmed these; also, during death and mourning we used white, not black. Some Filipino-Chinese celebrates New Year’s Eve (not Chinese New Year) wore Polka dots with red to begin the year with fortune and joy, counting money and spreading coins all over the house to add more wealth, and gift giving using âng-pau or ang pao (Red envelope), culture.

No nukes please. I find it tasteless. Please remember what nukes really do.

For the rest. Is it important to administrate this? And if so: should accurate scam and reputation reports not be administrated too?

The forum doesn't moderate scams.

They do moderate post quality, placement and plagiarism in accordance with the rules.

So the other badges don't make much sense from a forum feature standpoint.

I did realize that. But would it be a good thing to moderate scams? Why is it for instance a good thing to moderate reference linking but not proven scams?

What about my variants? I think they are looks good. It's like evaluations.

I'd prefer them over nukes, but there are some points of feedback. I don't find them recognizable and the black lines are too thick, making them seemingly blurr into each other. I've seen better options in this thread.

It's nice but this spot has place only for 4 items and all of them is about communication
website
pm
email
profile

seems like this place is not for such type of icons as best reporters badge

My version(s)
colors: bronze, silver, and gold

1)
https://i.imgur.com/cwQDEUi.png


2)
https://i.imgur.com/PmdQrtj.png


3)
https://i.imgur.com/yqlMwwg.png


4)
https://i.imgur.com/bVfCJ9c.png

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This one is neat, but I'm not sure about the colors.

Why not just go with the same coin theme as the existing rank icons, but in a different color that indicates a white-hat look & feel, such as green? All of these ideas are great, but most of the suggested icons do not fit the current look and feel of what the forums have to offer.

Here's an example:

https://i.imgur.com/8H8juTL.jpg

The coin gif is already in use, which means it's royalty-free (I'm assuming), and it's not hard to re-color the existing image that you're already using. The look is uniform, and it matches well with the existing feel of the forums.

I modified the milestones a bit, and maybe you could add a half-coin accent (for the fifth coin) for anyone that submits over 10,000 good reports (to match the existing rank icons).

Sometimes the most subtle changes/additions are the most effective ones. Thoughts?

IMO they look like extension of existing rank coins - as if rank coins didn't fit into space and were transfered to the second line. It could be confusing and intermingle with rank depiction. Images which do not resemble the coins at least show straight away that they denote something different.

Put aside those milestones change, I agree with your idea. Any other designs on this thread are so beautiful that overshadow the ranking badge - which is unnecessary for a secondary badge. Anyway, the color is a bit over colorful, grey would be better

In addition, 3 more versions
I'm pretty sure that it should be a stand-alone icon with a different color for each rank — to avoid similarities with the rank medals.
Because it's not about forum rank, it's just your number of reports and it shouldn't be an equal weight with the rank (which is much more important)

5)
https://i.imgur.com/amxzCsO.png


6)
https://i.imgur.com/6iRwUZ2.png


7)
https://i.imgur.com/DVpU2KI.png

I'm doing 3 icons with color:bronze, silver, gold. And 1 icon with one option.
I'll post the icons and how they will look

1.

https://image.ibb.co/iTqXtz/image.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/g3Y7RK/image.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/hTeQDz/image.png (https://imgbb.com/)


https://image.ibb.co/gGustz/1.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/n1VyYz/2.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/dAsqfe/3.png (https://imgbb.com/)

2.

https://image.ibb.co/jZFnRK/image.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/fRZgmK/image.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/dyQnRK/image.png (https://imgbb.com/)


https://image.ibb.co/ftOwLe/7.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/bPHdYz/8.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/nBtwLe/9.png (https://imgbb.com/)

or

https://image.ibb.co/dw6u6K/10.png (https://imgbb.com/)

3.

https://image.ibb.co/h273Yz/image.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/k2u6mK/image.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/dirVDz/image.png (https://imgbb.com/)


https://image.ibb.co/d1HWLe/12.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/nvEYYz/11.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/k6Sntz/13.png (https://imgbb.com/)

4.

https://image.ibb.co/iTdctz/aim2_77382.png (https://imgbb.com/)


https://image.ibb.co/dHNsRK/4.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/miaqDz/5.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/hbRK6K/6.png (https://imgbb.com/)



If u want to see my work please follow the links.

I really like 1 variant of badges for reports. Shields looks really cool, but i think they need some upgrade. For example, remove this ribbon or remove symbols on ribbon, because we can't see what the author wrote there. And second good idea, it's badges for bans. For now we don't have any signs that means this profile is banned. And for our safety, so that people will can't conduct machinations with account, i think we need badge for ban.

Quote for images:

How about some badges which staff members can vote on a monthly basis for the 'best' reporter. Could encourage users to report more, and include more detail, and tackle more complex issues.

It doesn't stand out enough for me to encourage users to report more. I think making it unique to the current ranking up ones would be better, and more effective in getting more users to report.

And the rest of my work. Eighth and ninth options looks like police badges. Because people who make reports, they as forum police and guarded forum.

5.

https://image.ibb.co/cXceqe/avatar.png (https://imgbb.com/)


https://image.ibb.co/cjXZOz/1.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/icAzqe/2.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/e2tKqe/3.png (https://imgbb.com/)


6.

https://image.ibb.co/hdKQVe/222.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/g8JVwK/333.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/jg0XAe/111.png (https://imgbb.com/)


https://image.ibb.co/kxcZOz/1.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/jdvM3z/2.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/nsbiGK/3.png (https://imgbb.com/)


7.

https://image.ibb.co/dPyKqe/image.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/jnGTiz/image.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/kSpg3z/image.png (https://imgbb.com/)


https://image.ibb.co/npNOGK/2.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/iFs13z/1.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/mJjEOz/3.png (https://imgbb.com/)

or

https://image.ibb.co/bVYkVe/4.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/hXM5Ve/5.png (https://imgbb.com/)

or

https://image.ibb.co/kJNFwK/yy.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/gTfeOz/yy.png (https://imgbb.com/)


8.

https://image.ibb.co/nppdGK/1.png (https://imgbb.com/)


https://image.ibb.co/dn40Ve/1.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/iej0Ve/2.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/fxT5wK/3.png (https://imgbb.com/)


9.

https://image.ibb.co/e4APqe/22.png (https://imgbb.com/)


https://image.ibb.co/enCtiz/1.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/mq2FwK/2.png (https://imgbb.com/)

https://image.ibb.co/caFDiz/3.png (https://imgbb.com/)

And the rest of my work. Eighth and ninth options looks like police badges. Because people who make reports, they as forum police and guarded forum.

5.

https://image.ibb.co/cXceqe/avatar.png (https://imgbb.com/)
https://image.ibb.co/cjXZOz/1.png (https://imgbb.com/) https://image.ibb.co/icAzqe/2.png (https://imgbb.com/) https://image.ibb.co/e2tKqe/3.png (https://imgbb.com/)


6.

https://image.ibb.co/hdKQVe/222.png (https://imgbb.com/) https://image.ibb.co/g8JVwK/333.png (https://imgbb.com/) https://image.ibb.co/jg0XAe/111.png (https://imgbb.com/)
https://image.ibb.co/kxcZOz/1.png (https://imgbb.com/)https://image.ibb.co/jdvM3z/2.png (https://imgbb.com/)https://image.ibb.co/nsbiGK/3.png (https://imgbb.com/)


7.

https://image.ibb.co/dPyKqe/image.png (https://imgbb.com/)https://image.ibb.co/jnGTiz/image.png (https://imgbb.com/)https://image.ibb.co/kSpg3z/image.png (https://imgbb.com/)https://image.ibb.co/npNOGK/2.png (https://imgbb.com/)https://image.ibb.co/iFs13z/1.png (https://imgbb.com/)https://image.ibb.co/mJjEOz/3.png (https://imgbb.com/)

or
https://image.ibb.co/bVYkVe/4.png (https://imgbb.com/)https://image.ibb.co/hXM5Ve/5.png (https://imgbb.com/)

or
https://image.ibb.co/kJNFwK/yy.png (https://imgbb.com/)https://image.ibb.co/gTfeOz/yy.png (https://imgbb.com/)


8.
https://image.ibb.co/nppdGK/1.png (https://imgbb.com/)https://image.ibb.co/dn40Ve/1.png (https://imgbb.com/)https://image.ibb.co/iej0Ve/2.png (https://imgbb.com/)https://image.ibb.co/fxT5wK/3.png (https://imgbb.com/)


9.
https://image.ibb.co/e4APqe/22.png (https://imgbb.com/)https://image.ibb.co/enCtiz/1.png (https://imgbb.com/)https://image.ibb.co/mq2FwK/2.png (https://imgbb.com/)https://image.ibb.co/caFDiz/3.png (https://imgbb.com/)

or maybe a rat is the best option  ::)

http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/icons8/windows-8/32/Astrology-Year-Of-Rat-icon.png

or just

https://static.mijnwebwinkel.nl/winkel/badboy/image/cache/full/67ba4319f6efbb9ddd7be648b49ff2d4881a3eed.jpg

I like the shields best so far because they symbolize protection.

Better even would be bells because they may symbolize bell-ringers.

I leave the design with others as there are clearly more talented.

Hoping I'm not repeating anyone's suggestion here, went through a few pages, but being honest I didn't read the full thread. How about a sniffer dog, with the colour changing as the number of reports rises? Not entirely sold on the colours, but could change them to anything.

https://i.imgur.com/CwizI1K.png  300 reports

https://i.imgur.com/j7vB1Hm.png  1000 reports

https://i.imgur.com/3bD0j4f.png  5000 reports

I thought those were fish (like Magikarp from Pokemon lol) when I first saw the icons before I read that they were sniffer dogs. Icons that are designed to be so small need to be extremely easy to recognize. Unfortunately, yours are not, mate.

Fair point, I guess simplicity is sometimes the key. I liked the idea though, so tried increasing the size a bit. Maybe they look a little less fish like now ;D I quite like the Sherlock Holmes ones someone did, instantly recognizable.

https://i.imgur.com/8FbfTml.png 300 reports

https://i.imgur.com/RXrqPFr.png 1000 reports

https://i.imgur.com/mnkc5yM.png 5000 reports

Or possibly another one of birds, as in the old saying 'a little birdie told me'...

https://i.imgur.com/VKvKxYr.png 300 reports

https://i.imgur.com/UWgpaN6.png 1000 reports

https://i.imgur.com/dnHDDE2.png 5000 reports

But reporters don't protect anyone. Moderators are here to protect and punish - reporters just help them, observe and (obviously) report.


I think it would be rude.

And that's why I suggest bell-ringer bells.

Yeah, I do agree simplistic changes are effective and look more appropriate. Shields/insignia/caps/nuke, rats/dogs, although all these are very good, IMO, like this one, a simple coin theme that aligns with the existing profile would be better than a "reporter going to war or sniffing around", although that's what reporters (of Bitcointalk) do, but it might look funny and take away the seriousness of time and effort being put into reporting. IMO, this is a good idea, simple and to the point, but not green and milestones can be modified where reporter badge requirements wouldn't end up spamming mods, guess that's all left to spam.

How about grass instead:

https://cdn.iconscout.com/public/images/icon/premium/png-512/grass-390a5ce23f43ba61-512x512.png

I think that one would actually look pretty cool haha.


I like them too. The colours can easily be changed. I think the colours should probably be more distinct from each other.


So do condoms. Which protect bell-ends, so maybe combine them both and have some little rubber johnny icons: https://static.thenounproject.com/png/38163-200.png

Thanks guys. Actually, I already made a version with better colors https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4742257.msg43388373#msg43388373  

I think that the badge should look like a pen on the background of a sheet of paper. The background of the sheet will denote the "productivity" of the author. For example:
Copper sheets - 300;
Silver - 1000;
Gold - 5000.

Something like that

https://image.ibb.co/ek88Jz/111458.jpg

I chose Red as the color of the "Good report Badge", because for me this color means wealth and strength. From history we know that this is the color of kings...

Looks good initiatives.
By the way, I am a little bit curious on who will count the report threads, especially valid report threads?
Will the forum have a new bot to do this or this task will do manually by forum staffs?

Strange reply. To me, and most people, the difference between condoms and bells are clear. Most social media platforms also use bell symbols. Have you ever mistaken those for condoms?

Not that it must be bells, but like everyone else here I'm just adding suggestions.

I think you might have missed the joke so I've replaced the bold tags.

What do you imply by "report threads"?
If you mean the actual reports, then they're already being counted automatically somewhere in the forum depths (you can see the result on "Report to moderator" page if your number of good reports exceeds 25).
If you mean topics where someone posts evidences of violations (for example (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1926895.0)), then I doubt that they generally need to be counted.

The magical forum elves who tally up your post count and activity on the fly. That shit isn't all automatic you know.


A bell end is slang for the head of a penis because it resembles a bell. It's probably a British term so not surpsing if the joke went over your head.


He's just asking who will count all the reports a user makes. Obviously it will be automatic.

I'm not very good at drawing.
Only ideas:

1. Flag

https://i.imgur.com/BoWZR9K.png

2. R - report

https://i.imgur.com/11QS90y.png

3. Zoom

https://i.imgur.com/zYzhUDH.png

4. Mail for moderator

https://i.imgur.com/2rKQp1h.png

5. Red button + R

https://i.imgur.com/XztIv25.png

Any color.

And new version.. ::)
I think these are best suited, but if anyone has comments, please write, I will read!
https://image.ibb.co/jA8fDz/1.png (https://imgbb.com/) 300 https://image.ibb.co/dX6iYz/04.png (https://imgbb.com/) 1000 and https://image.ibb.co/d7ofDz/3.png (https://imgbb.com/) 5000

https://image.ibb.co/gTLGmK/21.png (https://imgbb.com/)https://image.ibb.co/k5E96K/22.png (https://imgbb.com/)https://image.ibb.co/dABNRK/23.png (https://imgbb.com/)

This is very funny "Always under reliable protection"

https://image.ibb.co/jMquDz/condoms.png (https://imgbb.com/)

Not sure why I missed this thread bit I think it’s a great idea by theymos. Quickly looking at my reporting stats I see that I have 96% accuracy & 157 ‘good’ reports. I still have some way to reach the 300 good reports.

Logging in to the forum and watching this thread. I am worried if this has been mentioned by the others, because I can not read all replies in this thread, but, how do you guys think if the user's report counts reset at a certain time? I suggest this because if this idea that we are talking about will give some benefit/merit/feature to a user, then they will stop after they reach at a certain level. Well i believe some will stop after they reach some level even if they dont have a benefit/merit/feature by reporting the spam except the badge.

If you're only reporting posts for a badge, and not because you hate spam on the forum, you're doing it for the wrong reasons.
Adding a higher ranking badge would be a better solution if you want people to be challenged again.

Am I right assuming that you suggest to set their counters to zero in order to spur their interest? I'd rather believe then that these users would be demotivated.
In fact if someone already does that for some sort of reward, he (or she) is already unreliable. As for the rest I doubt that we need anything since they do that for better reasons. IMO badge is just a way to distinguish the most diligent, not to stimulate something.

@LoyceV and @esmanthra

Well, looking at hillariousetc's reply, i believe the increasing number is not 100% people who report to make this forum less spammy than before, because they start when this idea comes up. I believe you guys understand too that there are many people would report post to have something shiny under their name (especially when it gives some feature), and the fact that we can report so many times in a day make it easier, people will spam it and moderators will be flooded with reports from users. Affter they reach the finish line, some of them will stop reporting spam.

What I want to say is, it's a good thing if theymos make a system that has a continuity for this reporting system, so users will be motivated to report, even if they dont like it so much. LoyceV's idea of adding new rank when lot of people already have the highest rank is great. It is a form of continuity too, my idea is resetting counts per certain time, maybe like per 6 months or per year.

Resetting the count doesn't make sense. It would be like resetting merit if you haven't earned any within 6 months. Or reducing activity if you haven't logged in within a certain period of time. Using the reset as a motivator would just implicate too many restrictions on the user, which would become a huge demotivated nuisance, as you're saying that you'll be taking away a user's rewards for something they've already accomplished.

I doubt we need additional motivation for people who otherwise don't care about the forum enough to report spam. Just like the sig-bounty "motivation" to create shitposts this would just cause new headaches. It's a recognition badge for people who are already motivated and let's leave it at that.

People who already reporting without expecting any reward, I think are  much more valuable than the the people that gonna hunt only for the badges/ranks.
The first ones really want to make a change but the second ones are only for "the game".
Resering the score will motivate the "gamers" but the other will be left out I a way.

People only need another push =] to join the signature campaign you need to have :
      - at least 25 merit
      - a tier 2 reporter badge
Another option is : you will get extra bucks for the previous two!

Too late  ;)
Anyway, mods seems enjoying more reports, no?

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Edit :
Indeed. Most of my reports are less than 6 months ago tho. After theymos announcement I add approx 10% more reports.
Prefer to stick in reporting and tagging duplicated topics & necro posting in the press section and sometimes take a look on alternate cryptocurrency and few local subs (abandoned some of it due to very active or totally inactive mods...)
Edit : oops I just checked the inactive mod and he got "fired".

I didn't really think that motivation was the idea here. I thought it was about raising awareness. I know I used the forum for a long time before I ever thought about using the report button and I would think many others are the same. People that don't like spam are going to see that badge and that might be enough to make them think 'oh, I'm supposed to do that'.

For that to work the badge perhaps should link to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4519248.0

My idea:
1. 300 good reports - notebook and 1 pencil (pen/stylus)
http://i103.fastpic.ru/big/2018/0808/ec/fe081b98dfab9f81d946dc8938addbec.jpg

2. 1000 good reports - notebook and 2 pencil (pen/stylus)
http://i100.fastpic.ru/big/2018/0808/b8/a6a5e9a3c6f828ca8cc7465871a09bb8.jpg

3. 5000 good reports - notebook and 3 pencil (pen/stylus)
http://i103.fastpic.ru/big/2018/0808/04/83abfc9ac348cb3de48c9bbfbd7dc504.jpg

We are all agree that people who reports without expecting any reward is highly valuable, but there wont be much of them to fight against spam later, when new users always coming and increasing, what will happen when spammer is growing faster than the valuable people here? The percentage of spam covered by reports will be decreasing.

I am not saying resetting is the way, but the idea is continuity, after you reach some awareness. Make people dont stop when they have the highest level. This is one of what we needed to do if we want to change the forum and make the forum less spammy.


Yeah but 1 thing you might forget is, report can be spammed in a day, not based on something hard like quality (merit) and time (activity). So it is kinda easy to achieve the badge I believe. Once again, I'm not saying resetting count is the way.

Personally I don't like the idea of compulsion to report anything. Such things confer an additonal value on the report badges (which they initially didn't comprise) and provokes excessive nervousness. Many people here are already too serious and wary.

Be cautious with something that can make some extra bucks for the people...
If the second reporter badge will be required for something (joining to campaign, etc.. where they talk about money in the end), people who really want to join, will do everything (legal or illegal) to achieve that 2nd badge...
The easiest way for our much-loved spammers is to create some fake accounts, create around 500 (or 1000, depends on the final decision of the limit) spam posts and report them on the spot... This will give them the second badge and will give the forum another 500 (or 1000) spam posts in various topics.... (and another 500 or 1000 post to check for the mods, who could check other 500 or 1000 real spam post instead...)

I kinda agree to not to make the reporter badge tier 2 as a requirement to join a signature campaign. I believe merit will be more suitable for it and some managers already applied it nowadays.


Serious into a good things and bring positiveness is good. I always consider that as a good thing. Meanwhile, lack of seriousness can cause a a lot of mess. See our forum now. Lot of spam (by spam, i mean a really really low quality posts)

A good idea can be to reward with airdop merit the start of this thing, to reward users who reported.

No. This would then lead to abuse. People would just report loads of things for the merit and easily rank up their alts this way.

Idea is good but im not gonna be rude we are in technological era and everything is now "smart".
Would like just little to correct 1 to stay note and pencil, that now it just to be done and can be good indicator that someone is willing to do this.
Second can be tape recorder or something similar to this, cuz we have this in past and they usually done this with some sort of taperecorder unit.
Third can be image of person talking over phone or tablet image, this is how is done today.

All modern devices have recording and video recording so it can be like this.

We can have all eras with these images and it could look good.

This can be done once when the system of reporters ' icons is introduced (as it was done when merit was introduced).

No abuse of this will arise, and the forum will receive some additional Merit from reporters https://b.radikal.ru/b26/1807/ee/5827f0cc70b0.png (https://radikal.ru)

Make a single Merit's airdrop for every 300 or 500 good reports

It's not a big deal for the bots to create 300-500 spam posts and to report those posts immediately with another bot to get that merit...
It surely will be abused as soon as possible, if it gets implemented....
So not a good idea at all

I was talking about small airdrop merit with a snapshot of datas before the start of those badges.

1. So no need to tell anyone that it will be implemented - just implement once - together with the launch of the system of icons reporters  ;)
2. A snapshot of the database of reports can be used for any date - today, yesterday, a week ago.

Spammers would expect another round of airdrop sometime in the future, so they will flood the system with fake posts and reports...
They will also expect that the report badge will be useful in the future in connection with merit, so they will prepare their main account to have the necessary amount of reports...
But we'll see

They can expect anything. Declare that airdrop is a single and will not be repeated under any circumstances (precisely because there may be abuse when re-conducting)

Merit itself is a kind of reward for quality posts. Reports are not related to posting. I don't think that it's correct to associate them in any way (all the more we already passed through it (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4330297.0)).


You propose to depict every stage with different image? I suppose it would be a mess. Bitcointalk'd start to remind all these forums and image boards, where housewives make huge blinking avatars and all profiles are obstructed with badges of different sizes and styles. IMO strict unified design and minimalism are preferable here.

I did not consider in this way - there was a dialogue about the possibility or impossibility of implementing this without abuse.

Even if it was possible to avoid abuse I don't think it is desirable. Merit is meant to mean that only deserving posters can progress up the ranks and giving merit for anything else defeats that.

Here, a simple badges that I created


https://i.imgur.com/fi92lxo.png = 300 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/fi92lxo.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/AA88f2n.png = 1000 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/fi92lxo.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/AA88f2n.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/3rnbPP5.png = 5000 good reports

i.e.
https://i.imgur.com/gexyQ7v.jpg

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Edited :
The badges icon has been edited to 16x16 pixels and you can find the bigger image size as follows :
https://i.imgur.com/JsC9qL0.png (https://i.imgur.com/JsC9qL0.png)
https://i.imgur.com/LteaSgQ.png (https://i.imgur.com/LteaSgQ.png)
https://i.imgur.com/aMS8hWI.png (https://i.imgur.com/aMS8hWI.png)


or maybe something like this

https://i.imgur.com/vwZzait.png = 300 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/0hEB0QL.png = 1000 good reports
https://i.imgur.com/qS3RnRV.png = 5000 good reports

i.e.

https://i.imgur.com/1MxBOIT.png https://i.imgur.com/bJ9Mt6M.png https://i.imgur.com/HGndeI9.png

Just sharing my idea related on your topic:

https://i.imgur.com/8i0fi4F.png

= this is for those who are making good quality post(well you won't get any if you are just posting not that bad post and not that good post, if you know what I mean)


https://i.imgur.com/rv4H3Sj.png

= this is for those people who are just making shit post and spamming the forum(the deserve this mark)


Well as you can see, my simple idea to determine if you are a quality poster and shit poster is just this exclamation point with two colors, green and red.

I understand very little of this, but abuse will happen if you merely get it 'airdropped' just for reporting. It's basically a free and easy way to get merit without actually earning it. Anyone can report a spam post, not everyone can make a quality/orignal post. People will almost certainly just start reporting their own bots.


Or make it not happen at all. Can you tell me exactly why you think this needs to happen at all?

I more often see a tendency here: a proposal which benefits mainly the one that proposed it.
The case with an airdrop is not a good solution, why would you benefit of something which everyone else is doing for free?

When I started reporting there was no merit system but nothing stopped me from doing so, as I was not expecting any reward or anything. It just makes me feel worthy even though nobody knew how many I have reported it was just for me.

If you report only as obligation, because someone told you so or only for the reward you are doing it wrong, just from a personal point of view. This has to be responsibly for you as you are a part of a society here and you have your role here. If I have to mention the fact that you can actually make money,  as many people are"working" here, this should be enough reward for you responsibly.

It's just my point of view.

Doesn't trust system show the same?
Also if someone is "good" in shiposting (or truly good in making quality posts), you don't need to mark it somehow - you can see it just from their posts (unlike reports which are hidden from public).

https://i.imgur.com/nycHLFI.png = 300 good reports

https://i.imgur.com/GC2e4Y3.png = 1000 good reports

https://i.imgur.com/EeNZH8q.png = 5000 good reports


https://i.imgur.com/59Br4A9.png  https://i.imgur.com/teWH99y.jpg   https://i.imgur.com/ZkJHPYt.jpg

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https://i.imgur.com/nli8dTZ.png = 300 good reports

https://i.imgur.com/zF2PEqM.png = 1000 good reports

https://i.imgur.com/LnVIFZl.png = 5000 good reports


https://i.imgur.com/88FVnQ4.jpg   https://i.imgur.com/fYvm7Fl.jpg   https://i.imgur.com/E5GdsxU.jpg


Just trying out what's good but definitely open for some suggestions and edits.

Overdue notice.

Give it the BFL-proverbial "two more weeks"? :P

I will give you another one in the pipeline  ;D


It's obvious that theymos is far more busy than we actually can think of.

Theymos operates on a different plane of existence to us mere crypto peons where time has no meaning or two weeks means two years in
human terms. The new forum software was coming 'next year' which was said in 2014 I believe. I think there are much more important issues that need addressing/implementing right now than badges in my opinion. In fact, I think they're just causing much more work for staff at the minute as it's clear there are a few users who have gone crazy reporting any old sort of spam post they can find since these reporting badges were announced and I don't think that's a coincidence. I've suggested theymos add another report button for sig spam etc so the current report queue doesn't get clogged up with crap and buries more important issues that need urgently handling but that's likely just another suggestion that will end up on the scrap heap or on the things to do before the new millennium list.

That's all we wanted, isn't it? I understand the mods are having more workload than before. To keep the balance may be theymos can consider asking volunteers to help the mods if he does not want to hire more mod/s of course.

As I wrote above-there was a proposal, I considered the practical possibility of its implementation without abuse. And that's all.

Is it really essential to report a spam post made in December buried in the first few pages of an Ann thread? Nope. Some people are clearly just looking for things to report and it's a waste of time for everyone right now. Report things that matter not anything and eveytthign just because it's going to get you a worthless badge. I've also suggested assigning more sub board mods and patrollers but my suggestions always fall on deaf ears.

No, absolutely it's not necessary, I did not thought about THAT though.

I have reported some spammy posts from a topic which was created on last October 30, 2017. I even created a topic yesterday (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4873293.msg43901029#msg43901029) to take care of it by mods if it's possible. Although the topic was created long ago but from last two days the topic started to push up by the spam bots (my guess). I am sure the case for the one I spotted and the one you spotted is not the same.

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You have already witnessed the result on here:


And it's not that you were not aware of the topic. In fact you had your thoughts (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4330297.msg38864239#msg38864239) on that topic.  ;D