Contributed lots of chat messages during an MoT event
Contributed to TestBash
Contributed to The Testing Planet event
Contributed to an on-demand course
Contributed to the Software Testing Essentials Certification (STEC)
Created a public MoT collection
Detected and flagged spam
Donated fee to charity
Donated to the MoT Scholarship Fund
Earned a certificate in test automation
Grateful for help
Grateful for some MoT merchandise
Grateful for support
Grateful to participate
Has MoT Professional Member on LinkedIn profile headline
Has MoT banner on profile picture
Heavily active on The Club
Heavily active on the MoT Slack
Highly engaged certificate learner
Hosted Software Testing Live
Hosted This Week in Testing
Inspired a poll
Introduced themselves on an introductions thread
Joined the Software Testing Live stage
Joined the This Week in Testing stage
Organised a meetup
Proactively asked the community, to support the creation of MoT content
Proactively supported another community member
Recommend an item for the MoT Observatory
Recommended a tool for MoT Software Testing Tools
Reported an MoT issue/bug
Shared a bug from the wild
Shared a good quote
Shared an MoT event write-up
Shared an MoT testermonial
Shared feedback with Team MoT
Spoke at a Ministry of Testing meetup
Started conversations
Took on the Ambassador role
Wrote an MoT Trends article
Wrote an article, published on the MoT site
No doubt this list will grow as we identify more brilliant ways the community contributes to expanding the MoTaverse.
At the moment, the process to identify who is eligible for a badge is a manual process. At some point in the future, we’ll simplify the badge system and bring it all onto ministryoftesting.com so you can proudly see your community star badges on your MoT profile page, alongside many other cool badges!
Plus, folks will also have the option to view the reason they earned a community star badge. We’re trying our best to make things as transparent as possible. Think of it like us moving from black-box testing to white-box testing!
If you wanna read more about how community stars fit into the bigger picture and why we’ve built a community algorithm, have a read of this excellent post from MoT Founder and CEO, Rosie Sherry (@rosie): The MoTaverse Community Algorithm
I’m curious to know…
For those of you who have at least one community star badge, what reason/s can you tick? And what is still on your list to aim for?
I honestly didn’t know it was for all this I just thought it was based on posting here on the club
Let’s see what I can tick but some are not always that clear such as " All round big MoT supporter and amplifier" like… what does that mean? or Amplified MoT content
I was going through the list but there is to much which is “too broad or way to unclear” for me?
“Grateful for help”
I am always Grateful for Help but how does it fit in here? XD
Same for:
Grateful for some MoT merchandise
Grateful for support
Grateful to participate
Someone who shares a selfie online with MoT swag is expressing gratitude, so we may award them a star, as long as we see it and it feels positive, or in line with our aspired culture. Their gratitude is appreciated by TeamMoT and it contributes to expanding the MoTaverse.
The list is forever changing and evolving. We’re in the process of automating some aspects of it and processify-ing it more.
I personally hope, at some point soon, members can award each other stars, but you’d like need to be a Professional Member and/or have a minimum number of stars already awarded.
And just like people have Github stars for projects, maybe we’ll have a similar concept for MoT Profiles/Members.
Another example. We often spot folks on The Club who ask a question and receive lots of replies. The original poster takes time and effort to reply to most of those replies and shares their gratitude with those community members. They have a positive demeanour and it’s clear they are curious to learn more and are kind with their words. It’s highly likely they’d get a community star badge with a “Grateful for help” reason.
Another example with the same reason. Someone expresses their gratitude for all the help they’ve received during an episode of This Week in Testing. Or maybe they continue to post on LinkedIn how much help the community has been to them, in a particular month.
An example here would be when someone joins an MoT event (like a meetup, The Testing Planet or Software Testing Live) and shares their gratitude on a social platform, such as LinkedIn. They tend to share gratitude for the organisers, people who contributed and those supporting the event.
It might even be as simple as someone just sharing their gratitude for participating in a discussion, in whatever format that might be.
There’s just a brilliant bunch of people out there who aren’t taking things for granted and they spot real effort when it comes to putting things on so folks can easily participate in a way that works well for them.
I can think of many times when someone in the community has shared hardship and challenges. And the community rallies around that person to help them, to let them know they are there for them. This could happen on The Club, MoT Slack, LinkedIn, at any event including TestBash and more.
We spot when that person shares their gratitude for the kind support they’ve received, typically during difficult times.
Even I also had the same thought, but it seems like life is unpredictable and so is MoT
But the list is interesting, and it seems like there is something for everyone in this list.
My aim is simple… get all the badges, tick all the reasons and find a place in the Hall of Fame of MoT, if something like that actually exists
Defo. Thanks for calling that out, Ujjwal. That’s the idea: make it clear and give folks many options.
And regardless of the contribution size, folks will enhance their career as part of the process. People up to good things will see people up to good things.
For those of you who have at least one community star badge, what reason/s can you tick?
And what is still on your list to aim for?
I just thought it was based on posting here on the club 
