Medals

It goes without saying that those outstanding members who discover incredible questions and provide mind blowing answers need to be truly recognized and honored for their contributions.

Medals awarded for high value questions

Medal
Awarded
Detail
Bronze Medal
for a good question
10 votes
Awarded for discovering a question that at least 10 people voted up.
Silver Medal
for a great question
100 votes
Discovering a question that at least 100 people votes up is a great question.
Gold Medal
for a terrific question
1K votes
A question that 1,000 people vote up is truly terrific and worth a gold medal.
Emerald Medal
for a spectacular question
10K votes
With 10,000 people voting up we are in the spectacular territory worth medals embedded with the rare emerald gems.
Diamond Medal
for a phenomenal question
100K votes
A question up voted by 100,000 people is really phenomenal and is worth a medal being embedded with the rare gem diamond
Red Diamond Medal
for an ultimate question
1M votes
This question is the jackpot discovery, voted up by 1 Million people, is a cause for great celebration. It will be honored by the most expensive red diamond (according to Forbes) embedded medal.

Medals awarded for outstanding answers

You will be honored with a medal if your answer earns enough votes. If there are more than 1 answer to a question then it becomes a little bit more complicated.

In Quetree, when there are more than 1 answer to a question, then one has to choose the best answer to vote on since one can only vote on a single answer per question. So, each answer ends up with a percentage of the total votes on all of the answers.

This percentage aka Acceptance Rating is directly proportional to how acceptable people find it to be amongst all of the answers. You are only awarded a medal with a 65% Acceptance Rating or above.

Acceptance rating (AR)

Acceptance Rating is the percentage of votes an answer gets among all answers to a question. The sum total of the AR of all of the answers to a question equals 100%.

For example, given the scenario, Question A with 3 answers:
Answer 1 getting 100 votes
Answer 2 getting 200 votes
Answer 3 getting 300 votes
Answer 1
Answer 2
Answer 3
Totals
100 Votes
AR = 17% (100/600)
200 Votes
AR = 33% (200/600)
300 Votes
AR = 50% (300/600)
600 Votes
100% AR
In this example none of the answers win a medal since maximum AR is less than 65%

So even with 300 votes in the example, the author of Answer 3, does not win a medal because it is only 50% AR.

With over a 90% AR, you have a stellar answers and get one of the special star medals with a star in the middle. These are the truly prize answers we are looking for and deserve special medals.

Medal
Awarded
Medal
Awarded
Bronze Medal
for a good answer
10 votes
65% AR
Bronze Star Medal
for a universally good answer
10 votes
90% AR
Silver Medal
for a great answer
100 votes
65% AR
Silver Star Medal
for a universally great answer
100 votes
90% AR
Gold Medal
for a terrific answer
1K votes
65% AR
Gold Star Medal
for a universally terrific answer
1K votes
90% AR
Emerald Medal
for a spectacular answer
10K votes
65% AR
Emerald Star Medal
for a universally spectacular answer
10K votes
90% AR
Diamond Medal
for a phenomenal answer
100K votes
65% AR
Diamond Star Medal
for a universally phenomenal answer
100K votes
90% AR
Red Diamond Medal
for an ultimate answer
1M votes
65% AR
Red Diamond Star Medal
for a universally ultimate answer
1M votes
90% AR

Leagues

Members will be automatically honored and assigned a league with a matching league trophy. This is to honor and recognize their impact other people.

Question League

Each member will be honored a single question league trophy depending on how many total votes they received on all of their questions irrespective of the number of medals earned.

Trophy
Awarded
Bronze
10 votes for all of the questions raised.
Silver
100 total votes for all of the questions raised.
Gold
1,000 total votes for all of the questions raised.
Emerald
10,000 total votes for all of the questions raised.
Diamond
100,000 total votes for all of the questions raised.
Red Diamond
1,000,000 total votes for all of the questions raised.

Answer Leagues

Each member will be honored one or two answer league trophies depending on how many total votes they received over the 65% AR mark and over the 90% AR mark for all of their answers irrespective of the number of medals earned.

Trophy
Awarded
Trophy
Awarded
Bronze
10 total votes
for all answers at 65% AR
Bronze Star
10 total votes
for all answers at 90% AR
Silver
100 total votes
for all answers at 65% AR
Silver Star
100 total votes
for all answers at 90% AR
Gold
1,000 total votes
for all answers at 65% AR
Gold Star
1,000 total votes
for all answers at 90% AR
Emerald
10,000 total votes
for all answers at 65% AR
Emerald Star
10,000 total votes
for all answers at 90% AR
Diamond
100,000 total votes
for all answers at 65% AR
Diamond Star
100,000 total votes
for all answers at 90% AR
Red Diamond
1,000,000 total votes
for all answers at 65% AR
Red Diamond Star
1,000,000 total votes
for all answers at 90% AR

If you have any questions or comments on medals or leagues please contact us; we would love to hear from you.

(Disclaimer: Although all medals and trophies awarded in Quetree are purely virtual with no actual monetary value, the respect, honor and bragging rights they represent are very real :)