topic Re: Was I there? in Member Support

Was I there?

Shannon — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 05:24:32 GMT

I was taking a look at my profile to ensure that everything's consistent, and noticed that I've earned the ISC2 2019 Congress Ambassador badge.

So far as I know, I don't sleepwalk --- but even if I do it I doubt I'd have made it from Saudi Arabia to the USA without waking up.

If this badge is awarded simply for wishing I was there, I'll accept it, but it requires having been present there then I'm not eligible.

@Kaity, please do the needful; the badge appears to have been given to 4 others as well --- so I hope it wasn't the same case. If this was some kind of system error please escalate it to the developers. Thanks.

Re: Was I there?

dcontesti — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 06:12:08 GMT

Interesting, I don't think I saw you there but the week was busy .....and after a while became a blur.

Re: Was I there?

CraginS — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 12:25:48 GMT

@Shannon yup, apparently I also slept-walked (sleep-walked?, slept-walk?) my way to the Congress, because I , too, have the new badge.

Diana, @dcontesti I also did not see you while I was not there.

Craig

Re: Was I there?

Kaity — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 14:48:44 GMT

We'll look into this, but I'm not seeing those badges on your accounts @CraginS or @Shannon

Re: Was I there?

CraginS — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 15:40:04 GMT

@Kaity wrote:
We'll look into this, but I'm not seeing those badges on your accounts @CraginS or @Shannon

Kaity,

when I go to my profile, View all badges,

I see it when scrolling down to the bottom row, which has three badges:

Star Wars Day 2019, July 2019!, and 2019 Congress Ambassador.

Craig

Re: Was I there?

dcontesti — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 16:15:14 GMT

What is a Congress Ambassador? Just curious.

Re: Was I there?

Kaity — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 17:05:26 GMT

Our Congress ambassadors were attendees who had been volunteers in the past. Sort of like "super volunteers" for this year. They promoted the event beforehand and had some extra responsibilities on site with the event.

They were @Lisav821 @jshaneadams @Retlaw @Brandon_Leiker and @dplude. There were more, but they're not Community members ... so no badges.

I'm still not seeing the Ambassador badge on any other accounts than these five, but we'll look into it. And fix that darn typo.

Re: Was I there?

dcontesti — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 18:01:39 GMT

Thank you

Sent from my iPhone

Re: Was I there?

rslade — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 20:16:39 GMT

> Shannon (Community Champion) posted a new topic in Member Support on 11-06-2019

> I was taking a look at my profile to ensure that everything's consistent, and
> noticed that I've earned the ISC2 2019 Congress Ambassador badge. So far as
> I know, I don't sleepwalk --- but even if I do it I doubt I'd have made it from
> Saudi Arabia to the USA without waking up. If this badge is awarded simply for
> wishing I was there, I'll accept it, but it requires having been present there
> then I'm not eligible.

I think the badge was for mentioning, here, the Congress during a certain period. I
got one as well.

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Re: Was I there?

rslade — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 20:50:16 GMT

OK, this is getting interesting 🙂

I got the Congress Ambassador badge. It was on my list of badges last week:

But today, when I went to look, it had disappeared!

I am, of course, heartbroken. And confused. What other badges might have disappeared when I wasn't watching?

Wait, it might be even worse than that? What if my kudoes are disappearing?

Re: Was I there?

rslade — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 21:00:44 GMT

OK, back in June they mentioned that there would be badges (plural?) for writing about/promoting the Security Congress conference. They didn't specify the badge. So, when the security ambassador badge showed up on my list, I figured it was for that.

I assume that, at some point, someone noticed the potential for confusion between the program that Kaity mentioned, and the name of the badge. So, I assume some (all?) of the badges got pulled.

It's possibly simply a case of the right hand no knowing what the left is doing. On the other hand ...

Re: Was I there?

denbesten — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 22:47:30 GMT

@rslade wrote:

Wait, it might be even worse than that? What if my kudoes are disappearing?

Turnabout is fair play. After all, you did cause their revenue stream to disappear by retiring. :-).

Re: Was I there?

rslade — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:39:39 GMT

> denbesten (Community Champion) posted a new reply in Member Support on

> Turnabout is fair play. After all, you did cause their revenue
> stream to disappear by retiring. :-).

As anyone who reads my postings can attest, I am *not* a retiring person.
Suspended, maybe, but retired, never!

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Re: Was I there?

Shannon — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 06:06:12 GMT

@Kaity wrote:
We'll look into this, but I'm not seeing those badges on your accounts @CraginS or @Shannon

It's not there now, but was when I checked yesterday --- between 8:00 & 9:00 GMT+3.

Re: Was I there?

dcontesti — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 18:02:50 GMT

@Shannon

I had the badge (oh for only a fleeting moment) but it did show on my screen...must have been a mistake on someone's part and they corrected it.......

Re: Was I there?

CraginS — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 01:51:27 GMT

@dcontesti wrote:
@Shannon

I had the badge (oh for only a fleeting moment) but it did show on my screen...must have been a mistake on someone's part and they corrected it.......

Yup, me too. (Hmmm, better not hashtag that). Anyway, as of 11/7/19 after 6:00 p.m. CST USA, the badge is gone from my badge list.

Craig

Re: Was I there?

Kaity — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 14:14:07 GMT

Hi all - I can confirm that only the Congress Ambassadors were issued the badge in question in this thread.

What you saw on your profile was the badge showing as a potential to be earned - that was an error on our end. It's been fixed so that you will only see it if you've earned it. As your screenshot showed @Shannon - it was earned by 5 (the 5 Ambassadors). I hope this clears up any confusion.