Charity ribbons gone?

[NuPagady]

Hey,

Sorry to bother but for some reason I don't see my charity ribbons neither in my profile







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Is there some age cut off or something when charity ribbon disappears?

 

[Gene]

Hey,

Sorry to bother but for some reason I don't see my charity ribbons neither in my profile. Is there some age cut off or something when charity ribbon disappears?

Charity Ribbons now expire after a certain amount of time (I think it's 1 year).

 

[NuPagady]

Oh... I liked to see these huge blocks of charity ribbons in the profiles of some members and I was hoping to become one of them one day hehe

Thanks for quick answer though!

 

[Joe]

Hey,

Sorry to bother but for some reason I don't see my charity ribbons neither in my profile. Is there some age cut off or something when charity ribbon disappears?

Charity Ribbons now expire after a certain amount of time (I think it's 1 year).

It is indeed one year after purchase.
Feel free to repurchase them!

 

[NuPagady]

Sorry for another post, just a question. Why?

If a huge number of charity ribbons cause problems for someone, you can add option "Show charity ribbons: Yes/No" in member's usercp. That way, if someone doesn't like to have to scroll the page longer just because of the ribbons, he/she can solve this problem quickly with just one click in control panel.


Let's be fair and honest - it's nice to see your ribbon count growing. It's like a milestone one after another. Better than having another hundred of posts. Why would I want my post count disappear after a year? I don't want to see my ribbons disappearing. I work on them - when I sell something, I know I can buy a charity ribbon and feel good about it. If I dedicate some percentage of my sales profit to buy charity ribbons, after some time I can see how active I was in this forum.

Even though the main purpose of charity ribbons is (obviously) charity, I believe letting people collect their charity ribbons without any expiration dates (ribbon is not milk) is the best way to motivate people to buy them.

If ribbons are deleted, that will definitely decrease the count of charity ribbons sold in this forum IMO, and that obviously doesn't help to rise money for charity organizations.

 

[Alex]

I agree with Paul.

Actually I plan to get a charity ribbon for every $1k sold at namepros. And it would be like a milestone for me.

I don't get why they get deleted.

 

[RickM]

I don't get why they get deleted.

My guess would be that is to:

A) Make you buy more (more donations to charity)
B) Stop a huge build up of charity ribbons in your profile & postbit.

 

[RJ]

It says they expire after one year, but the only charity ribbons that expired were those that were purchased in 2005.

 

[Gene]

It says they expire after one year, but the only charity ribbons that expired were those that were purchased in 2005.

Will they routinely be deleted from now on?

 

[RJ]

It's not automated yet. A year sure flies by quick though, so maybe we should make ribbons last 2 years before fading out.

 

[GreenGambler]

It's not automated yet. A year sure flies by quick though, so maybe we should make ribbons last 2 years before fading out.

I think longer is better, personally.

Donating to charity is GREAT and it makes me feel good to do so, but we are given something in return for our donations.. a ribbon.. hence we are buying the ribbons. If they are just going to be deleted in a year than why give out the ribbons at all. Maybe they can fade away but still be there like a watermark, after a year? Or if a build up of ribbons is the problem maybe they can be condensed into one larger or more prominant ribbon for people that have 5 or more of the same charity ribbon.

Not really a big deal to me but as I said, I would prefer them to stick around longer..


Cheers,
GG

 

[Gene]

Some good ideas there, Rich.

 

[NuPagady]

My guess would be that is to:

A) Make you buy more (more donations to charity)
B) Stop a huge build up of charity ribbons in your profile & postbit.

A) I don't think it makes me buy more. Like I mentioned before, it's like a milestone, just like post count or reputation points. If my post count and reputation would reset every year, I'd probably stop posting in the forum. The same is for charity ribbons, except you feel much better collecting charity ribbons.

B) There are other ways to solve this problem. Here are some ideas:


1. Show only, say, 20 ribbons and add a javascript link "Show other 256 ribbons this member has". That would be very easy to implement.

2. Like I mentioned before, you can add option "show charity ribbons: yes/no" to UserCP. I personally like to see all charity ribbons even if they take a lot of my screen space. If somebody has problems with ribbons - they can turn them off.

3. Group ribbons. If member has a couple or more ribbons of the same kind, just show one ribbon and a number, like this:
[Hurricane_icon] (2) [Red_cross_icon] (25) [child_abuse_icon] (12)

 

[Alex]

A) I don't think it makes me buy more. Like I mentioned before, it's like a milestone, just like post count or reputation points. If my post count and reputation would reset every year, I'd probably stop posting in the forum. The same is for charity ribbons, except you feel much better collection charity ribbons.

B) There are other ways to solve this problem. Here are some ideas:


1. Show only, say, 20 ribbons and add a javascript link "Show other 256 ribbons this member has". That would be very easy to implement.

2. Like I mentioned before, you can add option "show charity ribbons: yes/no" to UserCP. I personally like to see all charity ribbons even if they take a lot of my screen space. If somebody has problems with ribbons - they can turn them off.

3. Group ribbons. Show a number of how many ribbons of each separate kind member has.

I agree with these points.