Thanks everyone for their input after Monday’s launch! We’ve been actively testing out various functions and squashing bugs as they come thanks to your feedback. Per your suggestions, we are in the process of adding Commentluv (or something similar that is compatible with our custom theme). We’ve added threading to comments four threads deep to engender banter. Finally, we’ve also added the “Subscribe to Comments” plug-in to keep you guys in the loop while you are away.
Hopefully everybody can get a Gravatar so we can see your pretty symbol or face. It takes less than 3 minutes to do. Some have expressed our pictures are curiously large, but don’t worry, the picture is still 1/30th the size of your own face! Besides, you guys are much better looking than I could have ever imagined! As the saying goes, “it’s always good to put a name to a face“!
YAKEZIE BADGES
A new set of badges have been created for members of The Yakezie. Get them here. They can be displayed on your respective sites now or after your Member Post is up. It’s been an honor for my fellow challengers, and now members to display our original Challenger Badge. It’s also quite kind of you to ask about no longer having a badge pointing towards Financial Samurai. I’ve thought up a balanced approach.
All first participants of the challenge are encouraged to sport the new badge. Just copy and paste the text into a text widget, place where desired, and voila! But what about those original participants who are still in the challenge stage due to late arrival or other reasons, and still striving to break 200,000 you ask? One suggestion is to reserve the Black Badges for those who’ve breached their Alexa goals, and reserve the White Badges for those who are still on their way. This could make for a fun way to bring further motivation to those not quite there yet. Essentially, all original participants have been grandfathered in as Members regardless of their Alexa ranking.
The original Yakezie Badge becomes the default first stage Challenger Badge that borrows the Mon (crest) of the Oda Clan. In order to differentiate between new Yakezie Challengers who we wholeheartedly welcome, and existing members, we offer up the original badge for continued use.
Once a new Yakezie Challenger has successfully completed the 6 month challenge, and/or has broken their respective Alexa ranking target (200,000, 100,000, 50,000), they will be invited to write a Member Post for initiation into the Yakezie. Existing members will then vote on the Challenger’s induction, which will allow the right to display the Member Badge.
Feel free to provide your suggestions and comments on our new badge system and whether you think it’s a good idea to offer a two stage program or not. If you’d like to sport both badges, feel free as well!
BELTS OF HONOR
To make things fun and reward participation, we have devised a Yakezie “Belts of Honor” system. All members start off as a White Belt and through the course of comments, Member Posts, and Yakezie Scholarship contributions, members will increase the number of points associated with their names, thereby rising up the Belts of Honor system.
The Belts of Honor are tied to your Yakezie.com user account, so if you want to get credit for all of the contributions that you make to the site, register for an account here. We are not requiring registration to use the site or even comment, but the belts and forums require user registration. Be sure to use the email address that is tied to your Gravatar. As an added benefit, anyone who signs up with Yakezie receives a user profile page on the site that lists their most recent RSS entries, provides a link to a user’s Facebook and Twitter accounts (if they so choose) and allows users to provide a short description about themselves as you can see in my example below.
Belt Ranks
White – 0 points to start
Blue – 150 points
Green – 300 points
Red – 600 points
Black – 1200 points
Black Belt Degrees:
Yakezie members are eligible to become degree Black Belts after 1 year of membership.
1st Degree: 1400 points
2nd Degree: 1600 points
3rd Degree: 1800 points
4th Degree: 2000 points
5th Degree: 2500 points
6th Degree: 3000 points
7th Degree: 3500 points
8th Degree: 4000 points
9th Degree: 4500 points
Grand Master: 5000 points
Input Variables:
Comment = 1 point
Member Post = 25 points
Yakezie Leader Role = 25 points a month
The Belts of Honor is a really great custom system Chris created to help implement the competitive and fun mentality we all have here at The Yakezie. Just as the Top Commenters tab proudly displays the most prolific members and readers, the Belts of Honor system rewards the overall most involved members. We are a meritocracy like no other. It is our hope that all Yakezie members reach the level of Black Belt and continue to strive for improvement!
Again, please feel free to provide us with suggestions and feedback on the system.
YAKEZIE FORUMS COMING UP
Over the next two months, we’ll be getting to know each other through our Member Posts. I’m so proud to see 40+ members sign up in a matter of days! The amount of organization and enthusiasm is incredible. What we’d like to do is to bring some “chaos” into the order of Yakezie.com through the Yakezie Forums.
The goal of the Yakezie Forums is to bring our Google Groups into the forefront. We average 20-40 comments per day in our Google Groups and I feel we’ll be able to better implement ideas and get more feedback if everything is integrated right here on Yakezie.com. The Google Groups forum has been integral in answering many of our questions and getting immediate answers. Hopefully we can replicate the success here.
Chris is preparing the forums as we speak. We both thought it was very important that Yakezie.com and the member forums integrate together, so we will implement a system that allows you to log in on one end of the site, and be logged in on the other. Chris is very confident that the forums will be up and running by the beginning of next week, most likely Monday. When they go online, we will let you know through Twitter, on the Google group, and here on the website.
YAKEZIE LEADERS
Finally, for members who’d like to contribute even more, I’d like to re-touch upon the idea of having Yakezie Leaders now that the site is up. The Yakezie Leader is one who is responsible for the direction of their particular vertical, category, or responsibility.
Some ideas for Yakezie Leader roles include: Public Relations, Social Media (Twitter/Facebook), Podcast/Interviewer, Yakezie Lifestyle, and Yakezie Scholarship.
Several of you have graciously raised their hands to become Yakezie Leaders in specific areas since you have professional experience in the off-line world. I just want to formalize the process here through the comments section below and give you an out just in case you’ve changed your mind since the stage one recap. If you are up for it, I will include the role you’d like to take and your name and site ad hoc in this post.
It would be great to have at least 5 Yakezie Leaders who will get a special Member Profile, and an automatic 25 points a month extra in the Belts of Honor System. You don’t have to be stressed at all about your responsibilities of being a Yakezie Leader. The main thing is to have fun, share your ideas, offer your expertise, and show us your vision! The suggested Yakezie Leadership role duration is 6 months.
ONWARDS AND UPWARDS!
I hope everybody is excited about the new features of Yakezie.com as I am. Chris and I have worked countless hours trying to make everything work. With all your help, we are achieving our goals of making the site as best an experience as possible for everyone. Furthermore, if you see spelling or grammatical errors in any of our contributors posts, do us a favor and point them out so we can fix them. If you have any further suggestions for improvement, please let us know. Everybody has a say in Yakezie.com!
* Things we are working on: Getting trackbacks to work coming in here so we are notified, a tweet button which displays a proper tweet count on the home page and post page, getting Commentluv to work here as well as track Yakezie.com’s latest post when commenting, and the forums.
Regards,
Sam
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Super work Sam. The belts are a fabulous idea. Gorgeous site, particularly the bio box at the end of the post which just just lovely.
Tomorrow, the world! :)
Good tip, I didn’t know how everybody always got those cool little things next to their name. Now I know! Everything looks great!
Guys, this is awesome! I love the honor belt system and I can’t wait to see the forums in action. The Google Group has been good but I think it will be better under one umbrella.
Good stuff! I see your White Belt!
Wow, it is obvious the amount of work you have put into planning all of this, very impressive!
I have to say, I am a little nervous about adding a new Yakezie button on my site after all the issues I had with the first one deleting all of my text widgets. I believe some other people had similar issues, does anyone know why it happened?
Again, thanks so much for putting this together!!
It’s up to you on the badges. This is the beauty if it all, it’s always up to us. Cheers
If you have some issues with the text widget, let us know. We should be able to troubleshoot it and get a proper solution for you.
Sam, I still interested in being the leader for a community discussion with the possible use of BlogFrog.
I spoke with the CEO at BlogHer and he indicated he’s working with a fortune 500 company who’s looking to work with a personal finance community. We’ve exchanged emails since then but I don’t have any more information on opportunities.
Is this something people are interested in having on this site?
Hi Kay Lynn, yes, definitely interested in some cross pollination and connection with new groups. Hopefully the Yakezie Lifestyle vertical can help promote many of our new friends.
Awesome. Just got the new badge (unfortunately, it’s still white…for the moment) uploaded on to my blog! Everything looks great. Looking forward to getting to know everyone better in the near future!
Good stuff! Good to see that the Belts of Honor system/algorithm is working. All about focusing long term.
Sam,
Simply bad ass! I like it. Considering how important monetization is for most people in the group I would also consider a point system for those who provide valuable leads.
E to the V
That’s a great suggestion E-Dog, and you have been especially good with providing advertising leads. We’re building a good database of leads, and a advertising system once the initial wave of member posts is done.
Yes, build in a points reward system for leads. We will implement that for sure!
Since I am new to the community, should I then leave the (original black Yakezie badge) on my site? I like both of the badges, so it doesn’t matter which one I am allowed to place. Just let me know.
Great job on the site, looks great. And for sure will be a huge asset in the PF community.
Cheers,
Danny
The Frugal Quack
Hi Danny, yes keep the original badge as it is a Challenger badge. The suggestion is after 6 months, or when you breach 200,000 in Alexa, we’ll get you a Member Post up here and induct you. We all went through the 6 months challenge. Whatcha think?
I must admit, part of what was stopping me from joining was the drab logo design. I love the text logo though! The whole site looks great! It’s amazing what this initiative has grown into!
Thanks, Leslie! I will let out graphic designer know that you like it!
Love the belt system. And I think the new badge is hot. I’m excited to put it up with my member post. Also Evan’s idea is great, he’s been great at passing along his contacts.
Yakezie.com is going to reach 200,000 in no time. Will we have to give it it’s own belt??
Nah, no special belt. We’re all in this together, one and the same!
Awesome system, I was really curious about t he best you were displaying and the member profile page. This is exciting!
I want to confirm that I am still very excited about having a role as a Yakezie Leader. I had suggested a Yakezie Family Finance vertical before which I still think is a great way to go, but my expertise is pretty general and I am happy to take any role available.
Sounds great Jesse. Family finance is important, especially as many of us move to the next stage with kids and such. I’m definitely down for that PF category!
I would just like to add that anyone who experienced issues with disappearing widgets in the past; try wrapping the badge in a paragraph, like this:
Maybe this will work:
<p style=”text-align: center;”><a href=”http://yakezie.com” title=”Yakezie Network” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://cdn.yakezie.com/badges/125-yakezie-01.gif” alt=”Proud Member of Yakezie”/></a></p>
Those quotes didn’t convert correctly… ok, last try:
<p><a href="http://yakezie.com" title="Yakezie Network"><img src="http://cdn.yakezie.com/badges/125-yakezie-01.gif" alt="Proud Member of Yakezie" /></a></p>If it doesn’t work, just rewrite the quotes! Sorry for the multiple messages, guys…
Fixed it for you, Kevin.
Thanks, Chris! I guess this leads to a new feature request: An easy way to quote HTML code. I would mark it as a low-priority enhancement ;)
This is awesome, Sam. You’ve put a lot of work and thought into this. I’m so impressed. I’m definitely still interested in the Scholarship Leader (I already have some ideas outlined). I’m looking forward to my intro post!
I do have a question about the alexa ranking; I’ve been sinking lately (even though my traffic has increased significantly). What happens if an original member sinks below the 200,000 mark? I think Alexa averages the number of visits over a few months, then gives a number rank that correlates. I’m pretty sure that in the next month of two, my ranking will begin to head back up due to the increase in my traffic, but right now its dipping down on a daily basis. Will this affect my posting or badge display (black for now)? Or will we be flexible if our numbers fluctuate a bit? Thanks!
I’ve dipped quite a bit, too — had broken the magical 100K threshold, then slip-sliding away in the wrong direction — so I’m curious as well.
Hi Little House & Nicole – Whatever happens to your Alexa ranking afterwards is less relevant than just being apart of the community. Once you’re in you’re in, and the Alexa rankings matter much less than the relationships we will be building over the years! Good question to ask.
Thnx
Sam, Chris, the effort you are putting into this is amazing. I think the belt system is cool (do I get credit for any comments made before registering? ;)), and the badge system is interesting, too, although right now it’s a little vague to non-Yakeziers what the difference between the badges are, so if having two different styles of badges is something that everyone agrees on, that might be something to look at.
Great job, guys!
We’re still playing around with the point variables actually. We want things to be long term, but not so long term where people feel it’s too hard to climb up the ranks.
We’ll add new variables for members to gain points along the way. Should be good!
Great work on everything so far, Chris and Sam! I’m really excited about the six month challenge and looking forward to becoming a full-fledged member.
Sam, I’d be interested in helping out with the Yakezie Scholarship side of things, but I guess I can’t be a leader for it since I’m not an official member yet. The whole reason I got into financial planning and writing online was to help people make smart financial decisions. I’m tired of seeing people get ripped off and having few resources for honest, unbiased advice.
Even if I can’t be the leader for that section, I’d love to help out as much as possible. I’ll become a CFP in November or shortly thereafter depending on the paperwork. But I’m already licensed to give investment advice (for a fee or for free) and I also prepare tax returns. I’d be happy to use that knowledge and those skills to help anyone who needs it!
Paul – It’s great you’ve become a challenger, and thanks for offering your CFP services! Future readers will definitely benefit for your expertise, and we’d love to have you as one of our CFP Scholarship donors (of time/advice) to potential candidates. Thnx.
The more I see the greater this is. The amount of thought and preparation gone into this both by Sam and Chris is incredible. Thanks so much guys. I love it.
Thanks mate. Good to have you on board the challenge. Next step, a cool Gravatar for you!
Great work Sam & Chris!!! I love the design and the system. I have changed the badge (but have gone white as I am a late comer and have not broken the 200000 yet). I also used the big badge for my Yakezie member page, it looks super cool!
When you have the first stage recap, I had been with the Yakezie only for a couple of weeks, so didn’t understand it properly. May be you have leaders for all the verticals by now? I have given my 2c about the scholarship vertical in the google groups. I will be happy to help and support Little House in any way I can. I “expertise” is not directly related to personal finance I guess. It is with “informatics”. I can research any topic and find the best deal/best information. I love financial planning and I think I am good at it. I am not licensed to do that though. I am training to be a volunteer tax preparer for next year. So if any of these skills will be useful in any vertical, I would love to pick it up.
Finally, regarding the forums – I assume that will be an open forum? In that case how do we handle posts that are not for public eyes? For example, if someone is planning to release an ebook and want Yakezie opinion before releasing to the public, we wouldn’t want it to be in the open forum right? How will that work?
Informatics, I like it! The important thing to realize is that everybody has something special to contribute and all are welcome.
WRT to the forum, that is a good question regarding secret projects and such. We’ll have to discuss and come to a conclusion at some point soon. The idea is to register for the site to be able to participate in the Belts of Honor and the Forums. We’re going to add comments in the Forums section as part of the point system as well.
We can also have the Google Groups as a shadow forum for those particular types of questions. Thoughts?
Sam, maybe you can have the forums set up so that some sections are open for viewing by anyone, but some are private and access has to be granted. The Warrior Forum is set up that way.
Yes. Something like a member forum or contributor forum (which has strict guidelines to get access to) would be great. But if that will be too much work, GG will work too!
I assume for someone like me I need to still be with the old badge since my alexa ranking is 432k.
Either way I finally put up the old badge on the site.
IJ, I guess you are a tweener, where you joined the original challenge late, but still joined the original challenge. Hence, feel free to put up the white badge or the challenger badge!
Ok also it says I’m a guest here? How is that changed?
IJ, in order for your comments and participation to be recorded on Yakezie, you need to create an account on the site. Once done, your badge will change from “Yakezie Guest” to a White Belt and everything you do from that point on will go towards your Yakezie score. To register, go here. Make sure that you use the same email address that you are using for your Gravatar, or else you will need to get an additional Gravatar tied to the email address that you use. That’s it! Welcome aboard!
I broke 200,000, so I guess I can use the black badge, right? I like the look of the white badge, though ;)
Black Badge, although it’s your choice really since you broke 200K. I like the Black Badge myself :)
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This is a great concept. Very innovative. It’s a helpful way of bringing finance bloggers togethere.
Nice Badges.
I’m looking forward to getting started. I’m at 487k today. Adding the old badge.
Nice! I think you’ll make well before the 6 month time period is over if you really give it a go!
Good stuff, I got the new badge plugged in!
Of course It’s still the white badge, but I hope that will change very soon!
Great work on the site. Love the badge/belt idea. I have gone from 629,450 to 460,291 in just under 4 weeks.
Everything’s looking good!
Good work on everything so far! The site looks awesome!
I like the belt idea ;)
Cool, now all ya gotta do is sign up!
ooh this is so cool! I really like the new badges – very sweet. And how cool is the belt system! love it love it Awesome stuff!
ooh I got my belt now
I put up the white badge, just because I like it. It looks great!
P.S. for those that had problems with the old badge removing all text widgets (I’m raising my hand as well) the new one did not do that.
Sam,
Love the new badges. As we have seen with the original challenge, friendly competition is an effective motivator-so the belts should help keep that aspect going.
My focus is on basic personal finance, so, if I understand it correctly, the Scholarship vertical is where helping people with questions/money problems will occur.
So please put me down in whatever capacity you desire in that area. Leader, sub-leader, sub-sub-sub leader, or just bottle washer….
And do I need to help with any fund-raising to help with your costs incurred to this point and in the future, till we get the site self-sufficient.
Let me know and I will get out my STRONG arm, and makes a few offers that can’t be refused!!!
Hi Dr. Dean!
Thanks for offering your help! Yes, the Yakezie Scholarship vertical is where we can directly help people through 1X1 consultation. The idea is to have a “Menu of Options” where a Scholarship applicant can choose to apply for via an essay, and if s/he wins, then s/he can select an option. It’ll be a work in progress for the next couple months, but will def have you down!
As for helping out with the costs and fund-raising, very thoughtful of you. Maybe we put up a donation button or something, and people can feel free to donate whatever sum of money they’d like. Have to admit, the launch is quite expensive if you consider our time, not to mention the basic costs so I’d rather not think about it! :)
Suggestions are welcome though. We figure to make this site self-sustainable in a couple months after the Member Posts and 2nd challenge begins.
Cheers, Sam
I’ll echo everyone so far and say the belts and logos are GREAATTT!! (Tony the Tiger voice). I’m down with the black belt, but like the ladies above my rank has taken a beating. I’m going to attribute it to the lack of interest people have over the summer, just like my pizza tips always dipped in the summer.
Since I’ve slipped in Alexa rank, I’m getting triple the hits from Wisebread. I’m at 98 right now and on the bottom of the first page. This position has been really good :-)
I’m still interested in helping the personal finance vertical with a “Get the Hell Out of Debt” niche if the group thinks we need one. Although, I’m probably the only one in debt…:-)
I look forward to progressing through the belt ranks. Great job again Chris and Shogun
So..you prefer the bottom huh?
I’m sorry, I couldn’t resist!
Anyway, you are not the only one in debt, and that is a very important vertical in my opinion. I second your leadership there! You are a beacon of hope and a great example..not many people are willing to get a second job to get out of debt and you show that not only should it be done, but it can pay off.
J.
You should not be littering our new site with sexual innuendo. We need to leave that to Len Penzo-he is so good at it…..
I personally, at my age, am satisfied at any position….
(sorry sam)
Oh man, you guys CRACK ME UP! hahaha. Where is Lenzo anyway? Someone go ring his doorbell and get him over here to discuss the latest Magic 8 Ball stuff!
haha!! you guys are so funny! =) I want my badge too! yayyayayay Yakezie!
Getting out of Debt is really important, and it is something MANY of us suffer from, including myself as I want to reduce mortgage debt.
Very few if any are as passionate about you regarding debt eradication Jeff, so it would be an honor of you lead the Debt Eradication Charge!
Everything looks amazing and love the new badges. I can’t wait to get the blackbelt fitted :) Great work Chris and Sam.
Great stuff. Really does look good and I see the Alexa already at 394,604.
Just a little confused. My blog only has an Alexa of 533,608 even though I joined Yakezie in early May. If I understand correctly that means that I have to display the old Yakezie badge (I’m using the one from creditcardchaser) and I’m not allowed to write a member post as per the registration that is occuring on google groups.
I guess I have to keep my head down and keep focusing on my content for now.
Hi RIT, you’re welcome to put up the White Member Badge since you are an original stage Challenger. Frankly, I think we are just going to work on making things simpler and have all Challenger and Member badges in the badges page.
The goal is to have a perpetual wave of bloggers enter the 6 month challenge, build their relationships with each other, improve, and hopefully make it to membership.
Great work! Very cool how this is coming together. This is on its way to being the PF blog network heavyweight.
This is exciting Samurai. I have the new badge up on my site and I am excited to start my journey to black belt!
Looks good, Sam. I don’t know how you have time for all this.
Thanks Flexo. It’s one of those things where one just finds the time b/c we gave ourselves a deadline and have so many ideas racing in our heads. Best to just go with it.
Looking forward to reading your Member Post!
The belts are a great way to help the network stay competitive and cohesive. I can’t wait to contribute some posts.
I really like the belt system, great idea.
Love it! Great job on all the hard work guys!
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Thanks for the detailed info Sam. I think the badges are a great way to help motivate and get things cooking. Glad to be onboard!
Thanks,
Timothy
Excellent discussion and very helpful especially for newbies to Yakezie like myself. Point noted about badge award and usage, Alexa qualifications, etc. Looking forward to contributing and learning from like minded individuals. Similar to Kay Lynn, I too would be interested in heading up a community, preferably in an area where successful and hard working individuals who want more out of life congregrate.
I think these are all great ideas – the belts, different badges, points, etc. I have a couple questions about how things will go.
1) Will the Yakezie forum replace the Google Groups?
2) Will this site now host all Yakezie carnivals?
3) Is there a way to have a page on Yakezie.com dedicated to the RSS feeds of all members – or at least those who are under 200,000? This would definitely help me to keep up with all of the members.
4) Who is going to host the carnival for this week?
Thanks!
Hi Khaleef,
1) Yes, the goal is for the Yakezie forum to replace the Google Groups.
2) The Yakezie Carnival will continue to be a traveling Carnival to respective sites, just like a normal Carnival so the host can benefit from the incoming traffic. Yakezie.com can also do a Carnival on occassion.
3) The Yakezie Network (http://yakezie.com/yakezie-network) will have all the members, and all their RSS feeds. Each member will be added after they put up their Member Post to ensure that those who want to be a part of the group are added. Meanwhile, the Member Post is supposed to really introduce each member to the rest and build upon our relationships.
4) Not sure. Doesn’t have to be every week. Check GG. If you’d like to host, and there’s a spot open, feel free! We’ll be using the Yakezie Forums for scheduling.
Cheers
Thanks for answering the carnival question. I’ve been wondering and even posted a GG post about it yesterday.
Also, just put my new badge up.
Great! I’m excited to hit the 200,000 mark and post my member post :D.
Chris, don’t know if this is the right place. The “Yakezie Badges” link in this page http://yakezie.com/yakezie-network is broken. Not a big deal, but some people might get confused on where to get the badges. so whenever you get a chance to fix it…
I wasn’t able to repeat this issue. The link works for me both on my phone and through my laptop. Perhaps it was a temporary hickup? Let me know if there is still an issue for you, but it definitely works for me.
May be something is wrong on my side. Existing members are encouraged to proudly display their Yakezie badges (coming soon) on their websites. The link on the Yakezie badges is http://yakezie.com/yakezie-network# which is the link to that page itself. May be it is a temporary thing and it will fix by itself… Thanks for looking into this.
Sorry, I misunderstood. I have now resolved this problem. Thanks for the sharp eyes!
I am interested in leading a vertical focused on investments, retirement accounts, and/or banking. I have professional and academic experience in those categories.
Awesome stuff things are shaping up….. One thing I would like to request is that posts to email are set up somehow as I don’t tend to use my RSS reader much anymore….
Thank you so much for continuing the Yakezie community! :) As a frugal-blogger and not necessary a PF blogger, I so appreciate that you’ve let me partake in the challenge. :) It was absolutely instructional and I loved getting to know fellow participants. :) I’m continuing to work on my rank (up to the 470Ks from 3.5M, if I recall where I started) and I’m excited to break the next threshold of 400K. Baby steps, right? ;)
Wicked. Everything looks awesome. World domination here we come!
quadruple black belt here I come :)
Awesome work on the Black Belt Sam….. I just came by to see how I was faring for a Red Belt…. Getting there!
This is so genius! Can’t wait to get my blue belt :)
I continue to see this as the best idea to encourage participation. Any thoughts to revive the Yakezie Facebook team?
Yeah, definitely need someone to lead the charge, as I’m not a FB user. Wanna do it and manage? I gotta find the UN and PW first though! lol
Hmmmm, it’s been a year since we implemented the Belts of Honor system. The new pictures with the various degrees should be showing up! Gonna look into this.
Also going to raise the # of points for writing articles to 50 from 25.