Learn About Ranks

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
June 28, 2017
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Good day everyone,

As communicated in this post we have updated the rank names to numerical levels ranging from 1 to 20. Your rank is an indication of your involvement within PTC Community and you will rise through the rank ladder by visiting, participating, and interacting with fellow community members.

Ways to rank up:

Posting questions
Responding to questions
Giving and receiving Kudos
Creating and uploading content

The goal of ranks is to reward you for your valuable visits and participation.

Cheers,

Toby

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Invisigoth

1-Visitor

I came here to get info on the ranking and stuck around to read through the comments. This type of ranking and points for participation is called "gamification" and it is how all these vendor sponsored customer-only communities work everywhere now. IOW, it's their playground and they get to setup the equipment.

As long as we can still ask questions, get and give information on the products, upload materials, interact with the PTC folks directly, help each other out of jams and workaround issues, that's fine with me. That is the end game for all of us, correct?

I like the fact that the profile now reveals even less about the member than did before. I didn't care, but it made some of the management in my firm nervous, even though I locked down my profile as much as possible in the old forum.

My participation pre-dates whatever the "mail exploder" is/was. In my previous professional life, a "mail exploder" would be a very bad thing : )

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Tmetcalf

Author

5-Regular Member

Thank you for your comments @Invisigoth

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StephenW

23-Emerald III

I had to look up "gamification". I guess to software programmers, we are all gamers, it doesn't matter if it's Warcraft or Creo or Windchill or Pacman, it's all still a game.

If you've only participated in the forum style online community (PTC Community or it's predecessor Planet PTC) you are NOT pre-dating the "Email Exploder" that established in the early 90's. Most of the exploder content was lost in a software transition around about 2004. If you search the community, you still find stuff that was migrated to the community from the exploder.

DBMS - SAVE

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