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Slashdot Launches User Achievements

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the can't-believe-it-took-so-long dept.

In a concerted effort to compete with more popular MMOs like World of Warcraft, we've decided to add an Achievement system to Slashdot. We've retroactively granted around 900,000 achievements to our logged in users. You can view them from your user page, or you can see my list if you're curious what a REAL achiever looks like. Many achievements have been sprinkled throughout the system and are awaiting discovery by dedicated Slashdot users, but a starter list of achievements is in the FAQ. I'll toss you one freebie: you can register your wow main for points if you're that kind of person. Now go forth and achieve!

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  1. Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I (and many many others) have an achievement called "The Maker" ... what does that mean? It's not listed in the FAQ.

    Also, how are you computing the total number of Achievements? If you add up my achievements (and if I add the powers of two I get closer) but it doesn't come out to be the number you posted.

    Also, if I have CmdrTaco's attention, why not leave this up? You've written the code for it and although it will certainly tax your database (default awards were handed out on different days) to update these values for everyone, why not leave it in place? Are you afraid this would increase karma whoring (it's in powers of 2 anyways) or produce negative effects?

    For those of you without Warcraft characters, you add it to your user page and then it appears on the right of your user page as a hyper link to the armory (check out my user page). Then you get a +1 achievement with Level 80 (or I guess whatever level your main is) on your Achievements page.

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    1. Re:Unexplained Achievement "The Maker"? by Rary · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I (and many many others) have an achievement [slashdot.org] called "The Maker" ... what does that mean? It's not listed in the FAQ.

      I don't have that, so it's something you did that I didn't. Does that help?

      You also got "The Contradictor". Any idea how you got that? And any idea how I got "The Tagger", considering I don't even know how to tag an article (I think you have to be a paid subscriber or something, which I'm not).

      I'm beating you on the number of consecutive days of Slashdot reading. Wait, should I be proud of that?

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  2. Re:The April Fool by friedegg · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now we just need little icons representing each of our achievements next to our names.

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  3. Re:bugged by watanabe · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For a number of years I've wanted a slashdot greasemonkey extension called something like "slashback" which would restrict all comments to people with UID lower than your own, thus returning slashdot to the same user community that got you to sign up in the first place.

    I tear up a little just thinking about it, of course not enough to actually write such a thing.

    Maybe next year, Taco? And, please keep the achievements, I love them! I'll come back tomorrow and be logged in, I promise!

  4. Re:Come on by tweek · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not far enough IMHO. For some of them, it appears they went with the most recent that would get the achievement. However, I'd really like it to go back and find the OLDEST.

    Then again, they may not have relevant data from the early years.

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  5. Ding by mrex · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Don't mind me... on my way to achievement whoring.