How to earn badges and move up the ranks
Recognition is given to community members for their contributions and engagement within the Community. Here are the activities that lead to the awarding of badges and rank promotion:
| Replies | Participating in discussions and responding to questions will give you points for replies. |
| Topics | Creating new topics and asking new questions demonstrates your ability to share new ideas with other members. |
| Answers | Other members and moderators can mark your responses to questions as correct. |
| Likes Given / Received | Recognizing the contributions of others is important in every community. |
Ranks | |
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| Ramping Up | Welcome! Every new community member starts here. Ask a few questions and like a few contributions from others and you’ll be moving up the ranks. |
| Driver | You’ll receive the rank of Driver after replying to your first discussion and liking posts by others. |
| Spotter | The Spotter rank is given to community members that not only participate in exiting topics, but initiate new discussions and questions in the community. |
| Technician | Technicians are reliable sources for other members: starting new topics, answering questions, and recognizing others |
| Strategist | In addition to participating in discussions, initiating discussions and recognizing great content contributions in the community, Strategists provide correct answers to other members’ questions. |
| Marshal | The Marshal rank is assigned to the all-around great community members. Starting discussions, asking and answering questions, recognizing the contributions of others, as well as being in the community on a regular basis. |
| Chief | You’re the Chief. You known networking and you know Forward. You share it with others and you help other community members achieve great things. You’ve done all the contributions in the other ranks and your stellar professionalism has taken you to the highest level. |
Badges | |
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| A badge awarded to those that helped build the Forward Networks community from the very beginning, creating a great place to share, learn and connect with other networking professionals. |
 | The FWD community awards this badge to one customer and one Forward Networks employee each quarter to recognize their extraordinary community contributions. Community members can earn this badge by posting helpful resources including NQEs, instructions, and demo videos, and by answering questions asked by other members. |
| This badge is awarded to community members that complete the Security, Cloud, and NetOps Quests on Forward Quest. |
  
| There are multiple badges for those engaging in the broader community. Work your way up from Contributor, to Collaborator, and then Forward Networks Expert. |
  
| Whether you’re an NQE expert or looking to build your NQE skills, participate in the NQE space to earn badges that show off your growing skills. |
Special Ranks | |
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| All Forward Networks employees are assigned this rank so you can easily identify them in the community. Interested in joining Forward? |
