Can I opt out of kudos and badges?

[Dain]

Its annoying, its childish, and the last thing I need is the stupid announcements coming in email that I attained a new badge/received a kudo/whatever.  Congratulations for having a freaking conversation... ooooh go me.

I wouldn't even give trophies to all the 4 year olds in micro soccer, they got soccer balls so they could play more.

This, when coupled with the whole attention economy dopamine hack bs that its based on, is not only ridiculous and offensive, it is NOT what ISC2 should be putting out in the wide world (let a lone to its constituency) just for clicks, and garbage metrics to attract more certification payments.

As Brett said, on the forum ISC has chosen to close, welcome to the new MCSE.

[denbesten]

> denbesten (Contributor II) posted a new reply in Welcome on 07-13-2018 03:05 PM
> Apparently, it does if you are not named rslade.

@rslade wrote:
It's people like you what cause unrest ...

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Apologies if you felt slighted by my comment.  The intention was to poke fun at Lithium for slighting you 

[denbesten]

Here is a tampermonkey script to opt out of kudos, badges and a few other gamification bits.

Now, we have the best of both worlds. If you don't like something, you can make it go away without impacting anyone else's enjoyment of it.

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Hide Kudos and Badges
// @namespace    hidekb
// @version      0.1
// @description  Hide Kudos and Badges
// @author       You
// @match        https://community.isc2.org/
// @match        https://community.isc2.org/t5/*
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

(
    function() {
    'use strict';

    function h(a){
        var obj = document.querySelectorAll(a);
        for (var i = 0;i<obj.length;i++) {
            if (typeof obj[i] == "undefined") continue;
            //obj[i].style.backgroundColor = "red";
            obj[i].style.display = "none";
        };
    };

    //hide kudos
    h("div.lia-component-messages-column-message-kudos-count"); // latest topics thumbs up
        h("div.lia-button-image-kudos"); //topic kudos
    h("div.KudoedAuthorsLeaderboardTaplet"); // main page top contributors
    h("div.custom-welcome-message li:nth-child(2)"); // main page kudos received
    h("div.MyStatisticsTaplet tr:nth-child(3)"); // my profile kudos given
    h("div.MyStatisticsTaplet tr:nth-child(4)"); // my profile kudos recived

    //Hide tags
    h("div.lia-component-message-view-widget-tags");

    //hide labels
    h("div.LabelsList");

    // Hide rank -- i.e. "Viewer II".
    h("div.lia-component-user-rank"); //my profile rank
    h("div.lia-component-author-rank"); // postings rank
    h("img.lia-user-rank-icon-left"); // admin badge next to (ISC)² employee names

    //Hide Badges
    h("div.lia-component-badges-widget-user-badges-list"); // system badges
    h("img[src*='image-id/2524iF619468B0C83C75A']"); // no-badge badge

})();

[rslade]

A Javascript to hide the gamification on a social media site.

Interesting.  Possibly useful social engineering.  But my appsec soul just withered a little bit more ...

[Beads]

Initially read as 'Glamification" instead of "Gamification" though internally I could substitute either term and be good with it.

[Beads]

Wouldn't have thought of writing JScript to hide those elements. Thank-you for broadening my view point on this.

[rslade]

As @denbesten pointed out, I originally posted this as a "comment" over on the "How to Enrich the Community in 2018" blog post, and, since it's a blog, it can't be tagged or anything.

So ...

... herewith once again.  (I probably should have put it in @Dain's post in the first place.)

(OK, tag away.)

[Beads]

As we head into yet another political season.

I approve this message...

[rslade]

I just achieved the "Happy 1 Year Anniversary!" badge.  (If you can call that an achievement.)

(I'm pretty sure that I must be well over the limit for the "Excel" badge, but it hasn't shown up on my list, so far ...)

[DAlexander]

Credits toward the Excel badge are only from October and November so let me help you out!

[rslade]

> DAlexander (Newcomer III) posted a new reply in Welcome on 10-10-2018 04:55 AM

> Credits toward the Excel badge are only from October and November so let me help
> you out!

Thanks for the kudo.  I do have more than enough "credits," in each area, within the month of October alone.

The admins are, apparently, doing badges manually these days, supposedly on a weekly basis.  I suspect they may be finding it a bit busy ...