Looking at my Plurk profile today I noticed a new badge down below my karma number. The little pink icon has an old-school radio microphone on it and when you hover over it to take a closer look, it says “Creator of a Plurk community site”.
Plurkular has been listed in the blogroll of Plurk’s blog for quite some time now, but that’s not necessarily readily visible to the users of Plurk. This community creator icon, on the other hand, provides that same type of information in the space where users spend their time, in the timeline.
Now, the next time I add someone as a friend and they take a look at my profile to validate who I am, they’ll see that I am the creator of a Plurk community site, which hopefully lends some additional credibility to me.
This method of recognizing star users seems to be unique in the microblogging world, though its not a far stretch from how Plurk awards stars to those who recruit new users to Plurk.
August 7, 2008 at 8:09 am
That’s cool! I’m still trying to get the badge for having invited 10 people - only 2 more to go!
August 7, 2008 at 8:37 am
Well, you’re almost there! Keep up the good work recruiting for Plurk!