What are community ranks?
What are community ranks?
Starting with “New Community Member” each member of Advantage Community can achieve a rank. This helps other members recognize your participation in the community.
In addition to being recognized by other members, achieving some ranks will give you abilities and permissions you may not already have such as the ability to post pictures or to access the Private Messaging feature in recognition of your continued participation in the community.
How do you move through the ranks?
The rank you achieve is based on your participation level in the Advantage Community, in addition to your participation level in the PayPal Community Help Forum.
In addition to asking and answering questions, you'll get credit for giving out kudos, getting kudos, providing answers that get marked as solutions, taking time to accept messages that answer your questions as the accepted solution, and tagging messages with relevant tags.
As you move up the ranks and become more knowledgeable and gain confidence in helping others, just logging in becomes less important and the other types of participation become more important.
We've tried to come up with a good mix to encourage and reward both active participation (posting messages and answering questions) and passive participation (giving out kudos, tagging, marking messages as accepted solutions, etc).
We will be reevaluating the ranks periodically and welcome any feedback you have. We look forward to seeing you all progress through the ranks!
