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Badges
Badges promote participation in and commitment to your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community, and they are a great way to recognize and reward accomplishments and community participation. Because of this, they're an important part of its social environment, as they give members extra incentive to be active and engaged.…
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Badgify Comments
The Badgify Comments addon allows you to assign custom badges to specific posts in your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community. These badges make it easy for you to reward users who comment in these posts, thereby encouraging engagement. The badges are created within, and are unique to, a post. Once this is done, you can…
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Best Of
One of the easiest ways to showcase the best content in your community is the Best Of feature. Members of your community vote on the best content, as do your moderation team and staff. You and your staff also have the ability to personally curate the Best Of page through the use of the Promote reaction, which will update…
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Gamification
The Gamification system in Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) is more than just badges: it's used to promote exceptional content, grant abilities to users, and help automate moderation. In this article, we'll look at each aspect of Gamification in Vanilla so you can better understand how to leverage it in your community.…
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Ranks
A Rank grants or removes specific community privileges (called Abilities). Ranks can be manually assigned to a user or earned by fulfilling the Rank's associated Criteria (e.g., accruing a set number of points, contributing a set number of posts). 📝 NOTE: A Rank is not the same as a Role and its associated permissions,…
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Reactions
Reactions are one-click responses to posts and comments. They enable your users to indicate an emotional ("Awesome!") or empirical ("Like," "Agree," "Vote Down") response without having to type a comment. This is important because it gives users a more "indirect" feedback mechanism when they may not have anything to add…