We're starting off the week right with another badge addition. 🙌

Introducing the Icebreaker Badge!

This badge rewards those who regularly leave the first comment on other folks' posts, helping to "break the ice" and get discussions going.

How it works

The best thing you can do to earn this badge is to be the first commenter on a post and leave a thoughtful, engaging comment. While dropping a simple "nice post" is a kind and welcome addition, to get this badge you'll need to put more thought into your comment. We're going to be keeping a particularly sharp eye on #discuss posts as we really appreciate it when folks help initiate discussions there. Lastly, note that we will not be rewarding folks this badge for commenting on their own posts!

As for logistics, every couple of weeks members of the DEV Team will meet up and pull data on the most frequent first commenters. We'll then manually review those folks, picking out who we believe have shared particularly good ice-breaking comments.

Why did we create this badge?

Like the Warm Welcome badge, we designed this badge to reward folks who help us create a kind, warm, and welcoming community. Being the first to comment on a post helps encourage other folks to open up and share their thoughts too. Comments are an essential part of what makes a community — without you all interacting and sharing ideas on each others' works, this would just be a platform for publishing. So, we really want to reward all those out there helping to break the ice and get conversations flowing.

We're really siked for this badge and hope you are too! If you have any ideas for badges that you think we should add or actions you feel would be worthy of rewarding, don't hesitate to share your thoughts in this post.

Cheers,
The DEV Team