I’m starting a random Blog Engage User Tip activity where every time I come up with a tip that can benefit our users I will write about it here on the blog. I will also add a link to each tip on our FAQ Page.
I’m very happy to announce we have launched an Awards system for our Blog Engage members. When you participate within our community your activity gets added up. This can be in the form of comments, karma, submissions, published articles and so much more. We now have a system in place that rewards our members with specific trophies for their participation.
Every award you receive from our system is displayed on the bottom your profile page. I’m still waiting on our template developer to fix it so it’s compatible with our template but it will be soon. Let’s take a moment and discuss each awards and how to get them.
Power User
To become a power user you must demonstrate community participation in all area’s of our website. This is done from commenting, voting, submitting and publishing. When you engage on the website using all the above methods you will come closer to the Power User award. This is by far the hardest award to achieve.
Power Voter
When you vote on articles at Blog Engage you are giving points. These points are calculated and when you reach the minimum amount for votes you will be award the Power Voter award.
Sixth Sense
When your vote makes an article become published this is what we call the sixth Sense. It’s as if you just knew that article was destined to be published and your vote did just that. So when your vote is the last vote needed for an article to be published your Sixth Sense score continues to rise. As the numbers add up and you reach the minimum number of points you will be given the Sixth Sense award.
Power Submitter
We award our users for submitting articles to our website. When your reach a specific number of submitted articles you will be awarded the power Submitter award. This doesn’t have to be only your blog articles. You can submit any blog article you wish to the community.
Power Publisher
When your a popular blogger and your content continues to be published you will be awarded for this. Once you reach a specific amount of published articles you will be given the Power Publisher award. this is a very difficult award to achieve but don’t give up.
Comment Master
As you comment on articles here at Blog Engage we give you points. As these points add up you get closer to the minimum requirement for the Power Commenter award. Engage with bloggers, leave some comments and eventually you will be awarded the Power Commenter award.
About
Hi There my name is Brian, I'm the owner of Blog Engage. I own a personal blog about SEO and Marketing. Make sure to follow blogengage on twitter @blogengage and like us on facebook. Be sure to add me as a friend, bbrian017
Tags: awards, blog engage, members



Justin Germino
August 17th, 2011
Been a member for a long time but just can’t keep up with some of the newer members who climbed the top charts. Been slipping as a top user for a while even though I am still one of the top referrers.
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bbrian017
August 17th, 2011
Justin being ranked 12 out of 5000 members isn’t such a bad thing. I think you should be happy with the results. Perhaps try to be more active with the commenting I haven’t seen you much lately. Just keep pushing forward I’m sure it will all work out with a little hard work.
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Justin Germino
August 17th, 2011
Yeah, commenting is something I forget to do. Speaking of voting though, the new “badge” that sits in front of the vote up / down buttons on some users makes it hard to vote sometimes, it took me a while to realize I can click on the green # to actually increase vote.
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bbrian017
August 17th, 2011
If you clear your cookies or even press CTRL and F5 you will see that image will go behind the votes and stop interfering with your ability to vote. I don’t know why the browser cookies are staying so long. I’ve had several users with similar complaints.
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Justin Germino
August 17th, 2011
The control F5 didn’t but I flushed all browser cookies manually and it finally fixed, thanks for that.
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Blazing Minds
August 17th, 2011
Great idea Brian, seriously need to get myself motivated lately and keep stopping by and participating more that I have been
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bbrian017
August 17th, 2011
Hi Karen, yes getting these awards is going to require community participation but don’t think it’s all needed at one time. If you continue on your path engaging and participating you will be awarded eventually.
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Fancy Dress
August 17th, 2011
It is great to distinguish between standard users and those that go the extra mile to provide high quality content and comments. I think the categories are all reasonable and will hopoefully encourage some of the slackers to participate abit more.
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David Leonhardt
August 17th, 2011
This is an awesome move. As a social bookmarking junkie, I can tell you that my fav site was always Mixx (R.I.P.). Mixx included awards similar to this, and it was really cool. I had a lot of those awards in my trophy case, and although they did not mean anything in concrete terms, they did mean enough to motivate me to do just a little more. BlogEngage has just officially embarked on the road to awesomeness!
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Naser
August 17th, 2011
The award system is great. Now we can easily distinguish, engaged users and new users on BE.
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bbrian017
March 4th, 2012
Hi Naser your right this is a great way to see who the best and most active users are!
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Paul Salmon
August 17th, 2011
I noticed the awards yesterday in the profiles, and I did search for what they meant. Now I know what each of the awards means and what I would need to to to obtain others. It will help to see which are dedicated members of the BlogEngage community.
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Christine Senter
August 17th, 2011
Cool idea, gives some of us smaller members a chance to shine. Thanks Brian
bbrian017
March 4th, 2012
Thanks Chris! I just finally got this into the theme now for blogengage
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Christine Senter
March 4th, 2012
You’re the bomb, my friend.
Ivin
August 17th, 2011
Definitely something to work for. Later you can sell a virtual trophy case. It could be displayed on your profile. Hehe
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David Leonhardt
August 17th, 2011
What was cool on Mixx was that you kept accumulating trophies. For example, every day somebody would earn a trophy for having the top story of the day (I think it was three people and three stories). There was also a “newshound” trophy; no idea exactly what it was for, but I know I had some. There was a “conversation starter” trophy, presumably for the person each day that was recognized for starting the biggest conversation. There were all sorts of trophies, and an active user would have hundreds of them. It was fun.
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Shaan
August 17th, 2011
I was surprised to see the Power User award in my profile, 2 days back . And I posted about it too…Its really a great which will keep all BE members motivated to participate
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bbrian017
March 4th, 2012
Nice work Shaan and now it’s all added to your profile again! Heep up the great work!
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Shaan
March 5th, 2012
Thanks you so much, Brian bro…It is really an honor
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Harrison Li
August 17th, 2011
ahah great system how many articles approximately do you think a person needs to publish in order t get the power publisher, that’s my goal!
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Cyn P.
August 17th, 2011
I love the feature!!! It’s awesome!
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bbrian017
March 4th, 2012
Hi Cyn I hope your still loving it now that it’s on our new theme
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bodynsoil
August 21st, 2011
I just saw that I had an award attached to my profile and off I was researching what this is all about. Fantastic idea as it will definitely kick up my competitive side to make me work harder to collect rewards. Summer tends to overwhelm me, taking me away from blogging, but I will be back soon in full force to kick it up a notch.
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Abhi Balani
March 4th, 2012
I flushed all the cookies and did Ctrl+F5 but I can’t see it.
Is this available for all, already?
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bbrian017
March 4th, 2012
Hi Yes it is, http://www.blogengage.com/user.php?login=bbrian017 but you have to reach certain levels of engagement before it starts showing.
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Abhi Balani
March 4th, 2012
Oh.. Okay. I’m ranked 12 but I haven’t submitted much stories. Anyways, I’ll make it appear on mine, soon.
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saha
April 5th, 2012
Great and motivating system.
Fantastic idea to know who are the best members and most active users. This idea will motive the members. And they will actively participate in award system.
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