Activity Badges

As the name already reveals, the activity section is all about your actions on Hive, such as posts, comments, upvotes given and received, payouts and replies. It displays the badges you have collected by being active on Hive.

As you can see, some badges are locked, and others are not. For new users, they all will be locked. You will have to work a bit to unlock them.

How to unlock activity badges?

Unlocking the first badge line is quite easy for any new user. You will have to complete the following tasks:

• To write your first post

• To write your first comment

• To upvote someone else's post or comment

• To collect some payout for your own post(s)

• To have people reply to your posts or comments

• To have someone else upvote one of your posts or comments

Not too hard, isn't it?

On the second row of badges, the level of activities carried out for each type of action will be displayed. At first, the required threshold will be easy to reach. But you will find that the next steps will become harder over time.

The next two rows of badges are where it gets more tricky. This is where you can really stand out from other users as they will show how committed and valued you are by your fellow Hivers. More on this later in this post.

Once you unlocked the badge, the number on the top left tag will indicate the number of times you succeeded to achieve this objective.

Daily Ranking

	Daily Top Upvoted Write the best post of the day and get it the most voted. If you succeed to be in pole position, this badge will be yours. This badge rewards posts only. It is a rare badge, which is attributed only once per day for a single author.
	Daily Top Commented Make sure that your post generates an interesting discussion and encourages interaction between the users of the voice. The more reactions on your post, the best. If you succeed to be in pole position, this badge will be yours. This badge is related to posts only. It is a rare badge, which is attributed only once per day for a single author.
	Daily Top Payout Write the best post of the day and get the biggest reward out of it. If you succeed to be in pole position, this badge will be yours. This badge is related to posts only. It is a rare badge, which is attributed only once per day for a single author.

Weekly Ranking

	Weekly Top Upvoted Write the best post of the week and get it the most voted. If you succeed to be in pole position for the entire week, this badge will be yours. This badge rewards posts published between Monday 00:00 and Sunday at 24:00 (UTC). It is a very rare badge, which is attributed only once per week for a single author.
	Weekly Top Commented Make sure that your post generates an interesting discussion and encourages interaction between the users of the voice. The more reactions on your post, the best. If you succeed to be in pole position for the entire week, this badge will be yours. This badge rewards posts published between Monday 00:00 and Sunday at 24:00(UTC). It is a very rare badge, which is attributed only once per week for a single author.
	Weekly Top Payout Write the best post of the week and get the biggest reward out of it. If you succeed to be in pole position, this badge will be yours. This badge rewards posts published between Monday 00:00 and Sunday at 24:00 (UTC). It is a very rare badge, which is attributed only once per week for a single author.

Regular Author

	Each time you publish a post on each day of the week, you will receive this badge. HiveBuzz weeks begin on Monday at 00:00:00 UTC and end on Sunday at 23:59:59 UTC. They are not date-to-date weeks. If you miss one post on one day, you will miss this weekly badge and you will have to wait for the next Monday to retry to catch this badge.
	Each time you publish a post for each day of the month, you will receive this badge. HiveBuzz months begin on the first of the month at 00:00:00 UTC and end on the last day of the month at 23:59:59 UTC (like on calendars). They are not date-to-date months. If you miss one post on one day, you will miss this monthly badge and you will have to wait for the next month to retry to catch this badge.
	Each time you publish a post for each day of the year, you will receive this badge. HiveBuzz years begin on the first of the year00:00:00 UTC and end on the last day of the year at 23:59:59 UTC. They are not date-to-date years. If you miss one post on one day, you will miss this yearly badge and you will have to wait for the next year to retry to catch this badge.

The ISO and UTC drama

To find out if you are entitled to receive a Weekly Author badge, Hivebuzz uses ISO week dates for weekdays, meaning a week begins on Monday and ends on Sunday!

Furthermore, to validate when you published your post, HiveBuzz uses the time of the blockchain which is UTC (Coordinated Universal Time)!

If you post at the wrong time, i.e. taking into account your local time or way of considering weeks, you may miss both badges and will have to wait till the next Monday or month to be able to earn your coveted badge.

These particularities in the validation rules have led to many users contacting us to ask us why they have not received their badges.

To help authors know if they're still on track to earn their awards, we've added progress indicators below the regular author badges:

They will let you know how many days you published a post this week, month, or year.

If the gauge is green, it indicates that you are on your way to earning the badge. If the gauge is red, it means you missed one or more days of the week or month, or you still haven't posted today.

In the above example (picture taken on Sunday 20th of the month), the user has successfully posted every day of the running week but unfortunately failed to post more than 10 days since the beginning of the month. They will get one more Weekly Author badge, raising its score to 144, but won't get the Monthly Author badge at the end of the month.

Next Steps Badges

To see how far away the next awards for your activities are, you can scroll down to the last section. Here you see what you have to do to reach the next level.

It will display your next thresholds, but also how far you are from reaching them. If you want more details about it, click on a badge to display an informative pop-up.

Next Badge information

If you want to know which task(s) you have to accomplish to earn a badge, just click on it and a pop-up window will appear with all the information you need.

In this pop-up, you will see your next target as well as your current status and the number of operations that you still need to perform to unlock the badge.

The goal is to keep being active, to be proud of your accomplishments and if you want, make a competition out of it with your friends or within your community. Then you can check at the Ranking, who is right before you or chasing you and it gets super exciting... but more about that later.