What's it all about?
The idea is that members receive awards (little icons displayed next to their avatar in forum posts) for performing different actions.
How do I get an award?
Some awards are applied automatically by the system. Others need to be awarded by the administrator. If you believe you are entitled to an award, or would like to nominate another member for an award, please contact the administrator by email or by private message.
Location
This 'award' shows that a member has placed a pin on the member map to indicate where they are in the world. Anybody who doesn't have this award is probably not worth talking to. :-P
Competitor
Awarded for having completed entries for our monthly competitions.
3rd class - awarded after entering 1 competition
2nd class - awarded after entering 3 competitions
1st class - awarded after entering 9 competitions
Winner
Awarded for having won one or more of our monthly competitions.
3rd class - awarded after winning 1 competition
2nd class - awarded after winning 3 competitions
1st class - awarded after winning 6 competitions
Contributor
Awarded for having material used in articles in our archives.
3rd class - For having material used in one or more articles.
2nd class - For having a significant piece or multiple pieces of material used on the main site and/or having presented it in such a way that it assisted the administrator in creating the article.
1st class - For making a very significant contribution to the content of the main site.
The administrator will judge which level of this award is appropriate.
Journalist
Awarded for having assisted the administrator in writing up other peoples work.
3rd class - awarded for having assisted with 1 piece
2nd class - awarded for having assisted with 3 pieces
1st class - awarded for having assisted with 6 pieces
Photographer
Awarded for contributing to our gallery.
3rd class - for having uploaded 15+ images and having an personal average rank (PAR) of 5+ OR for having a PAR which is 1.5x the average rank for the gallery as a whole (GAR).
2nd class - for having 25+ images and a PAR which is greater than the GAR.
1st class - for having 25+ images and a PAR greater than 1.5x GAR.
Gallery Critic
Awarded for having voted upon gallery images.
3rd class - for having voted on 10 images
2nd class - for having voted on 100 images
1st class - for having voted on 1000 images
Site Reviewer
Awarded for having left feedback for links in our links section.
3rd class - for having left feedback for 10 sites
2nd class - for having left feedback for 25 sites
1st class - for having left feedback for 50 sites
Product Reviewer
Awarded for having a product review entered into our archives. There are no levels for this award because writing a review is a significant amount of work.
Genius
Awarded for coming up with a brilliant idea to improve the website or forum, particularly when it relates to an issue that the administrator was struggling to sort out. There are no levels for this award as we do not expect there to be that many opportunities for winning it.
Service
Awarded by the administrator for having given significant assistance in running the site/forum and/or for having demonstrated a long term commitment to TerraGenesis. Recipients of this award will probably already have earned a number of the other awards.
3rd class
2nd class
1st class
These will normally be awarded in sequence i.e. a member who obtains the 3rd class award and is then deserving of another will be upgraded to 2nd class and will require further service to attain the 1st class award.
TerraGenesist
Our highest award given only to those who have made a very significant contribution to TerraGenesis. Those who receive this award will usually have obtained a number of the other awards i.e. they will have reviewed numerous links, made numerous competition entries, contributed images to the gallery and material to the main site, in addition to having come up with a genius idea or having reviewed a product. However, a 'very significant' achievements in any one area, such as having reviewed multiple products, or having numerous competition wins, may reduce the requirement to have excelled in all areas.