🌟 50+ ways to earn a community star badge

[simon_tomes]

There are 52 ways to earn a community star badge each month.

1. Added a meme
2. Added a photo memory
3. Added definition to the MoT glossary
4. All round big MoT supporter and amplifier
5. Amplified MoT content
6. Amplified a job advert
7. Amplified community members
8. Answered questions, shared helpful advice
9. Beta tested an MoT feature
10. Contributed a quote to an MoT Trends article
11. Contributed a talk, published on the MoT site
12. Contributed lots of chat messages during an MoT event
13. Contributed to TestBash
14. Contributed to The Testing Planet event
15. Contributed to an on-demand course
16. Contributed to the Software Testing Essentials Certification (STEC)
17. Created a public MoT collection
18. Detected and flagged spam
19. Donated fee to charity
20. Donated to the MoT Scholarship Fund
21. Earned a certificate in test automation
22. Grateful for help
23. Grateful for some MoT merchandise
24. Grateful for support
25. Grateful to participate
26. Has MoT Professional Member on LinkedIn profile headline
27. Has MoT banner on profile picture
28. Heavily active on The Club
29. Heavily active on the MoT Slack
30. Highly engaged certificate learner
31. Hosted Software Testing Live
32. Hosted This Week in Testing
33. Inspired a poll
34. Introduced themselves on an introductions thread
35. Joined the Software Testing Live stage
36. Joined the This Week in Testing stage
37. Organised a meetup
38. Proactively asked the community, to support the creation of MoT content
39. Proactively supported another community member
40. Recommend an item for the MoT Observatory
41. Recommended a tool for MoT Software Testing Tools
42. Reported an MoT issue/bug
43. Shared a bug from the wild
44. Shared a good quote
45. Shared an MoT event write-up
46. Shared an MoT testermonial
47. Shared feedback with Team MoT
48. Spoke at a Ministry of Testing meetup
49. Started conversations
50. Took on the Ambassador role
51. Wrote an MoT Trends article
52. 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

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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?

See you around the MoTaverse.

[kristof (Kristof Van Kriekingen)]

@simon_tomes

For those of you who have at least one community star badge, what reason/s can you tick?

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

[rosie (Rosie Sherry)]

An example for Grateful for some Merchandise

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.

[kristof (Kristof Van Kriekingen)]

@rosie

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.

Sounds cool! Maybe instead of members giving stars, they could nominate a person or something and then a MoT Member can award the star?

[simon_tomes]

@kristof

Grateful for Help

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.

[simon_tomes]

@kristof

Grateful to participate

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.

[simon_tomes]

@kristof

Grateful for support

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.

[ujjwal.singh (Ujjwal Kumar Singh)]

@kristof

I just thought it was based on posting here on the club

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.

@simon_tomes

And what is still on your list to aim for?

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

[simon_tomes]

@ujjwal.singh

… it seems like there is something for everyone in this list.

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.

[komalgc (Komal chowdhary)]

how do i report a MOT bug, have found couple of them , and would like to report it

[simon_tomes]

@komalgc

how do i report a MOT bug

Thanks, Komal.

There are two ways:

1. Start a new chat via https://www.ministryoftesting.com. Look for the chat icon in the bottom right of the screen.

or

2. Share a message in the #16_mot-ideas channel in the MoT Slack.

[kulsum_siddique]

I realized that I already have the badge after looking through the post

[gaurav.jaz (Gaurav Khurana)]

Would be great if all these points are made as a link.

It would be useful to see how and in which category someone can post a meme or photo memory ?
Shared a bug from the wild ?

while some of them are pretty clear like Wrote an MoT trends arcticle. again there could be a link to such article or may be a link which can help us in started writing that article

[rosie (Rosie Sherry)]

They are always changing though, almost daily, at least weekly. Especially as now they are built into our platform.

Some are automated. Some are manual. Some we create as we go.

Here’s a screenshot of my profile page with the star count near the top right.

[simon_tomes]

@gaurav.jaz

while some of them are pretty clear like Wrote an MoT trends arcticle. again there could be a link to such article or may be a link which can help us in started writing that article

Thanks for your idea, @gaurav.jaz.

As well as Rosie’s suggestions, you could also have a look at the new Community Stars page.

Select a profile picture, and you’ll start to get a sense of how folks are earning stars. For example:

1. Visit Community Stars | Ministry of Testing
2. Select “Andres Gomez Ruiz” A global community of practice for software testing and QA | Ministry of Testing
3. See that they have “Contributed to an MoT Trends article” and there’s a link to “12 things we learned when we questioned the existence of test case management”

It’s also worth noting that community stars are achieved way beyond The Club, so there isn’t a specific Club category to do things in.

Let me know if you have any more questions.

Side note: One day we’ll have a dedicated page on ministryoftesting.com which will help clarify how it all works with examples.

Yet in the meantime I reckon explore the community stars page to discover things you might like to consider doing.

[ujjwal.singh (Ujjwal Kumar Singh)]

@rosie

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Seems like @rosie will be the first person to reach 404 stars

[gaurav.jaz (Gaurav Khurana)]

Thank you. Though this tells why they got

Would be great if you can make those link like below with 2 link

Earned a certificate in test automation
Click here to earn a certificate and get this badge(star)

Then that link should take us to page where lets say

• Contribute to trending article
• Do a certification
• Contributed to an MoT Trends article

As of now i got to know what that person did to get this. Also in some i can see what they contributed

But how can i do the same whats the guidance to publish an article / do a certification

Suggestion - Have a how to page

How to do X on MOT ?
and give a common link so people can go and do stuff

like playing with the URL i came to know A global community of practice for software testing and QA | Ministry of Testing here i can add memories

[rosie (Rosie Sherry)]

I’m going for it! Gotta catch those 404s!

[simon_tomes]

The official community algorithm is live on the MoT site.

Community Algorithm

The MoTaverse Community Algorithm is powered by Community Stars, these are awarded based on actions within the MoTaverse. They can be awarded automatically or by the human hand. See who has recently earned a community star.

Now in Beta: MoT Professional Members can now award Community Stars too. Who could you celebrate today?

[jmosley5 (Judy Mosley)]

I’ll take some time in a bit to think about this - so many ways to earn stars!!! - but I was curious. Is it fine if I add Contributor to Ministry of Testing on my LinkedIn? I don’t need to earn a star for it, but I was curious if it was fine if I did? I’ve been wanting to, but wanted to check.