By now, some of you should have received numerous reward points emails telling you that you have received additional points based on the achievements that your account has accomplished.
As we have talked about before, we have been working on a community achievement system to further reward users that are helpful and have been a loyal customer to ToyDemon. We have asked and received a lot of useful suggestions from the community, though our system won't be perfect, it's just a starting point and we hope to build upon it as we go, so please bear with us and feel free to let us know any problems/issues that you see.
So starting out, the system is pretty basic. It's based on what you have done on ToyDemon.com and the community. So here are the achievements available and the rewards that come with it:
In the table, you can see that we have setup basic tasks that will earn you reward points just based on your activity within the TD community. Those are pretty self explanatory:
Topics = # of Topics Created
Comments = # of Comments Left
Products = # of Different Products Owned
Reviews = # of Reviews Written
Upvotes = # of Upvotes Received - # of Downvotes Received
**EDIT: Ppl are confused with the total heart count next to your avatar as upvote. The ❤️ count is a combination of things.
-1 Review = 3 ❤️
-1 Topic = 2 ❤️
-1 Comment = 1 ❤️
-Total of up vs down vote on your content.
Total added together is your current ❤️ count.
The actual upvote achievement is based on total of others users hitting the up/down arrow on your review / topic / comment. Up is +1 while down is -1.**
Each achievement will also have a corresponding badge that goes with it. The badges are pretty simple to understand and will show up next to the user's avatar. You can simply mouse over it to read what the achievement is.
So based on the table, if you received 25 upvotes from others, you will receive 500 Pts and so on. It's fairly simple to understand. Each achievement will come with a corresponding badge which you should already be seeing and it's fairly simple to understand.
There are some basic rules and changes we have made to the community because of the achievement system:
1 - Your account must be active and has a nickname setup. Pretty basic and self-explanatory.
2 - Self upvote has been removed (so that one cannot simply spam and upvote themselves).
3 - If you choose not to display your purchase stats then the "Products" achievement badge will not show up on your account for others to see, however, you'll still receive the rewards from the achievement.
4 - We have also added a badge. This badge means that the person has had their email notification turned off, so if you see that next to a user's avatar that means even if you @ them, they will not get an email notifying them. This is to help you understand that they will not see your message and is unlikely to respond to you.
5 - Please refrain from spamming and abusing the system. No system is perfect, as much as we try to put in guard rails to prevent users from spamming so they can try to game the system. In the end it just results in less rewards for everyone. So please just use the community as you would, we'll be monitoring the rewards to ensure that no one is trying to abuse the system.
Again, this is just us starting out and we'll try our best to add more as we go along. Some might be harder as it requires deeper database access and analysis but we'll keep trying while to make this a positive experience and keeping our website as smooth as we can.
Let comments below and let us know what you think or any issues you're seeing.
Let us know what you think of the achievement system
@anon12345678 we certainly feel that good reviews and good discussion or recommendations should receive more upvotes and be rewarded. Hopefully we won't get too many bots or spam to ruin it. Here's an upvote for you!
@Zeke Just a friendly reminder, Geezer has the email off icon, that means he won't get a notification of your message to him, so he'll have to stumble back to your comment to know that you replied to him.
Omg this is perfect! and it's feels so soon just because of the of march giveaway discussion last week (I know you already had an achievement system planned but because the timing of it all, it feels so fresh)
@Ineviolet we have been working on it for a while. It's just hard as our site is not a small-ish site, so when we make changes or updates, we gotta test and make sure it doesn't break anything else. We also redid how the avatars display so that it is more prominent and that make sure everything looks aligned correctly. Lot of time is spent on fixing how it looks.
Achievement badges now show up next to most places where you can see a user's avatar, hope you guys like it.
Not to ruin the party, but I would maybe setup some type of monitoring system to make sure a group doesn't go around and abuse the down vote system. I've been on forums before where a certain clique/troll_group would go around and do that while the mods sat around and did nothing. It turns into a cancer that eventually ruins the community.
@BSG My understanding is that upvotes are a completely separate metric. The heart next to your name isn't your upvotes, it's a combination of # of comments, reviews, etc. The TD account explained it somewhere in here.
Would be great if that's the case.
It's this certain sentence that caught my attention; "The actual upvote achievement is based on total of others users hitting the up/down arrow on your review / topic / comment. Up is +1 while down is -1.**"
My impression at the time of reading was "OK, so cliques/trolls/bots could collectively downvote you to oblivion".
I noticed the double ** at the end but didn't see anywhere else on the post to clarify the note.
@BSG ah you're absolutely right, I skimmed over that. There's probably some preventative measures we don't know about, but if not that would be a funny result. Hate bombs on a sextoy site. Generally I think it's safe to trust the TD mod team, they listen and are very transparent but this is definitely something I would like to hear input on.
I don't have too much to say, since I rarely use my toys anymore and haven't made a purchase in almost three years. I do think it's a wonderful service offered to your customers that is entirely unnecessary, yet much appreciated and helps cultivate the community.
My profile does say I have 114 Upvotes, yet I only seem to have received the Tier 1 reward and not the Tier 2 reward.
@**ToyDemon** oh shoot forgot to ask my question. I'm sure if I was a seasoned user here I'd already know the answer... But do the rewards stack? Like if you get a tier 2, do you get the initial 300, then 400 for a total of 700? Or is it 300, then 100 for a total of 400?
@KuroNoRider Sorry, I forgot to mention it but I did in the March Giveaway, since we just started this system, if you already are at tier 3, you would have gotten rewards for tier 1 and 2. Users can check their reward points history and see that they were rewarded with all tiers. So no need to worry about missing anything.
@**ToyDemon** I was a bit confused at what you guys meant when you said you were working on an achievement system, and now that I'm seeing it I just think it's really cool. Rewarding users for participating in the community seems like an awesome way to encourage and boost community activity. Good stuff guys
@**ToyDemon** I'm not usually one to comment, as I'm not a social person, but this is making me want to engage with the community more. I'll also spread the love of upvotes.
@**ToyDemon** I'd like to add, at this point, TD probably has one of the best loyalty and rewards point systems i've ever seen... Thus far it's checking off all the right boxes!
@**ToyDemon** I like it. You guys are building a nice active community here. Another idea for achievo: account age (requires at least 1 purchase per year or similar).
@**ToyDemon** awesome. I saw the preview of this post, looked on profile for an achievement list, then came here to ask if there was one. Obviously I should have opened the post first because the list is right here! Lol. I know as a certified gamer I enjoy achievement systems. Hopefully this encourages more engagement, etc. (without welcoming spam). It certainly gives me more of a reason to jump in the chat and not just lurk. And on releasing this update late... sometimes things just take longer than expected. No worries, just cool to see some new developments.
@**ToyDemon**
I finally got around to actually reading about the community achievement system (I think it's a great idea!). Since it's gone live, I'm curious if its significantly driven up community engagement overall.
@**ToyDemon** Been away from Toydemon for a bit and was awesome to see the rewards. Defiantly a great community and its nice to see some people value my thoughts on toys.
@**ToyDemon**
Really great to see this kind of engagement from a vendor in this fashion to engage their customer base with each other. Just another reason why you guys are my go to for toy shopping. Appreciate you, the community, and the work you do!
