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Badges
Badges help promote participation and commitment to your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community, and serve 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 members.…
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Badgify Comments
The Badgify Comments addon allows you to assign custom badges to specific discussions in your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community. These badges make it easy for you to reward users who comment in these discussions, thereby encouraging engagement. The badges are created within, and are unique to, a discussion. Once…
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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 take a look at each aspect of our Gamification system so you can better understand how to leverage it in your Vanilla…
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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 amount of points, contributing a set amount of posts, etc.). 📝 NOTE: A Rank is not the same as a Role and its associated…
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Reactions
Reactions are one-click responses to discussions and comments. They enable your users to indicate an emotional ("Awesome," "LOL") 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…