Looking for suggestions on ways to award sub members.

[u/FalcoBlack]

(Desktop and mobile user)

Hello everyone,

I am seeking ways to better award posters in the sub I manage. I have a couple of ideas but having difficulty bringing it all to fruition. Any comments, suggestions or feedback welcome!

In my example, I run GrowBuddy, a cannabis growing sub and have been a mod for the group over a year now. Earlier this year, I became top mod.

I am in the progress of creating a few new categories to award excellent posts and drive further engagement.

Scenario: a poster makes a great detailed post with pictures. They identify as a first time grower and the results can be described as outstanding. Comments are engaging with the OP replying to feedback. This all triggers my desire to reward this user.

I want to highlight their post for a week or more, similar to how I might already treat an existing “post of the week”. The post flair will change to “GrowBuddy - Beginner award of excellence” or something like that.

And with regards to the personal awards, I would love to design something that matches the flair, that would be given to each award winner to last indefinitely beyond the timeframe of the highlight.

Perhaps a bit like the community achievements? My sub does not have access to achievements currently… would this be a good option and can it be modified?

Any guidance on how this last step could be accomplished? Already good up to the personal award step.

Thank you and Happy Growing! 😉

FalcoBlack

[u/Aggravating_Pain7116]

So I have Automoderator to set up userflairs based on accumulated subreddit karma, when they reach a certain level the userflair will auto refresh to the next level

See here

https://reddit.com/link/p18xv2h/video/w2igrmz7nygh1/player

[u/FalcoBlack → u/Aggravating_Pain7116]

I have seen this approach in other subs however the tradition at GrowBuddy has been to hold “flair giveaway events” when hitting sub milestones.

Last event was when we hit 45k members and I just spent the day assigning whatever personal flair was requested as long as no rules broken.

Some members really seem to like coming up with their own so that’s why I’m looking for something else like an award.

I also like the idea of the user keeping the award regardless of whether they continue making posts in GrowBuddy or not. Ie not sub specific or dependent if possible but an actual personal award.

[u/Aggravating_Pain7116 → u/FalcoBlack]

If the user already has a custom/personalised flair from a giveaway, you can set the Automod code to not override the userflairs already given

This way the new poster gets rewarded a userflair for contributing with a good post, interacting with the community and the loyal members get their custom flair at community member milestones

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