What are these ‘Cheers’ about?

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Hey everyone,
today, on my profile, I noticed a number next to a text that said, “Cheers”. It brought me to following page:

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What is this supposed to be? Anyone got an idea or knows?

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Just click on the small blue circle ‘i’ on the top right of the page.

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Think the general idea is to encourage you to be part of the community, add useful comments to posts and be interactive. As you see Neville and I are usually towards the top as we participate on many posts, but the position really has no value to me at least, I use it mainly to see who has contributed.

Alfred is correct in his reply.

It just comes as part of the package we all use.

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sounds like the mcdonald board of excellence

please remove!

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Agree. A community should not be powered by a leaderboard to encourage people to participate (though I guess that’s not the case). I just don’t see the use of this in the forum. Any thoughts from @abhishek on this?

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It does not bother me whether we have it or not.
I dont regard it as a contest or a race.
Most of discourse seems to be propped up by this sort of thing … eg badges and popular links.
I think it is harmless.
I think it does need some statistics about usage patterns.

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This is a built-in Discourse feature that can be disabled. There is no real meaning here. You don’t get prizes for being the ‘member of the month’.

However, I like it for the fact that I can see the most active members here. Also gives me an idea about regular active members.

Personally, I like it :slight_smile: I can disable it but only if you folks absolutely detest it.

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Oh, that explains everything! I thought that it’s like the most active get extra stuff.. due to having the top in big pics. If that’s so, I actually find it informative - I only thought that so…

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Same here. Leave it as it is. :grin:

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I am with you on keeping it, like you I use it to see who has been on the site and interacted,

If it costs nothing then leave it alone.

I wish I could add something similar to a web site I run as some of our group are very discouraging but as my site is on a totally different platform all I can offer is general user stats

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Yes we do …. More work to do !

Not complaints more we get the more interesting it is to return

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