Learn: giffgaff Top Tips

[clairekav]

A quick guide to ranks within the giffgaff community

There are a number of ranks that you can achieve within the community:
•    newbie giffgaffer
•    apprentice giffgaffer
•    giffgaff advisor
•    giffgaff mentor
•    giffgaffer guide
•    ……

There is also a special rank for those folks who are more into organising (tagging) things:
•    giffgaffer gatherer
•    giffgaffer herder
•    ……

We’ve decided not to publicize the exact ranking criteria, as some folks try to game the system and that doesn’t help anyone. That said, giffgaff members will gain higher ranking through their involvement in the community. The list below illustrates some of the things the ranking criteria is based on (not in order of importance and some elements are weighted greater than others):

•    Accepted solutions received
•    Kudos Given
•    Kudos Received
•    Length of time on the Community
•    Number of logins
•    Posts marked as “Accepted Solution”
•    Total number of Posts (minus deleted posts)
•    Total Number of Tags applied throughout community
•    Time spent online in the Community Forums
•    Join date

As members achieve higher rankings within the Community Forums, they will also automatically receive additional functionality (privileges such as being able to personalise avatar, move posts etc) – while maintaining the functionality rights previously achieved.  Administrators may invite certain members to become Community Leaders at their discretion.  We reserve the right to modify, change, or discontinue the Ranking program at any time without notice.

As always, we welcome any comments, suggestions, or feedback you may have. Stick them in the discussion boards, or contact the administrator

Cheers!

[loophole82]

Thanks Claire
I asked about this just earlier today
http://community.giffgaff.com/t5/Ask-the-community-got-stuck-get/Ranking-System-on-the-Forum/m-p/189...
This clarifies it 100%

[leon]

'There is also a special rank for those folks who are more into organising (tagging) things:
•    giffgaffer gatherer
•    giffgaffer herder'

Thankyou! I am more into that sort of things, I dont do much help with posting so to make up to that - I tag things! So far I have 167 total tags.

[andy0]

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leon wrote:

'There is also a special rank for those folks who are more into organising (tagging) things:
•    giffgaffer gatherer
•    giffgaffer herder'

Thankyou! I am more into that sort of things, I dont do much help with posting so to make up to that - I tag things! So far I have 167 total tags.

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You might read the following remark, about gaming the system.

It isn't a requirement, or even useful, to set out to place several tags on each post. The point of tags is to find useful threads on a subject, which the search function can do as well, but the tags put a slightly higher rank in the results.

Thus, rather unspecific and generic tags are less likely to be useful, and might tend to clutter the list.

For example, not many people are likely to use the forum search for words like card, cheap, days, lite, message, months, networks, num, number, numbers, phone, phones, points, posts, price, pricing, pstn, sell, social, tool, tools, usage, users, version, web, or even £5000, or all the member decription categories, and making a post just for the sake of adding 5 tags to it might be overdoing it a bit too.

It's good to see you enthusisatic to help, but try to concentrate on more specific ones like some you've added, such as unlock or PAC or Skype Fring and Nimbuzz. Try to spot the words that people might want to put in a search

[vincent]

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leon wrote:

'There is also a special rank for those folks who are more into organising (tagging) things:
•    giffgaffer gatherer
•    giffgaffer herder'

Thankyou! I am more into that sort of things, I dont do much help with posting so to make up to that - I tag things! So far I have 167 total tags.

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Hi leon,

I'm glad you like it

Not everyone is a massive posters, but this way you can still really help out. So thanks for your input!

Just note that with tagging it's especially important to find the key words in a post/topic. I don't know if you are familiar with the system, so if you are I just ignore what I say, but for those that aren't familiar with tagging the important thing to remember is, don't use sentences or words like 'a', 'an', 'the', etc.

And like Andy0 said, it's finding the key words in a post which is important. These are those words which are most likely to bring up that specific thread in a search.

Good tagging can be pretty tricky, and that's why we wanted to reward those who do with their own titles

Cheers,

Vincent