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While musing about a hybrid of StackExchange/FogBugz in another question, I started thinking about the prospect of having a Rep/badge system like the one on Stack Overflow.

On first blush it seems like it might be a cool way to motivate developers or at least add some competitive fun to their jobs.

Consider the badge possibilities:

Closer - Most cases closed out.
Squeaky Wheel - Most cases created.
Mr. Accurate - Best performance against estimates.
Heavy Lifter - Person with the most open cases assigned to them.

Just thought I'd throw that out there for anyone looking for a plug-in idea.

Case FC2038940

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asked Sep 15 2009 at 17:55

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I think this would be a great "fun" sort of plugin to add in. +1 – cdeszaq Apr 30 2010 at 14:43

Rich Armstrong · Answer 1 · 2009-09-21 15:26:04Z UTC

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It's a good idea, but badges tend to be for set numbers of things, barriers you cross over. These would seem to be badges that would be handed out at intervals. How would that work?

answered Sep 21 2009 at 15:26

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I was musing on that too. I'm thinking it work best if the badges in FB worked with more of an "Employee of the Month" meme (scores based on a specified interval to correspond with a release) or a leaderboard meme where a badge is only held by one user or one user within each distinct grouping of users. Anyway, this is a just for fun idea more than anything else. – JohnFx♦ Sep 21 2009 at 18:43

dove · Answer 2 · 2009-09-25 08:21:06Z UTC

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Kiwi Badge - closed longest open bug (possible a multiple of this)

Think it's a great idea, not good for actual bonuses or anything, more just for fun and fostering some healthy competition.

Also a fun negative badge would work well, Build Breaker, that could be movable to the last person who broke the build

ps - i'd vote up but don't have the rep ;)

answered Sep 25 2009 at 8:21

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I knew that build breaker would sneak into the discussion eventually, but the trouble with that would be that a FB based system would theoretically be constrained to using data that is actually in the FB database. Also, publicly shaming people seems like a bad idea for morale. – JohnFx♦ Apr 30 2010 at 15:11

Feature-request - How about a rep/badge system in FogBugz?

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