{"id":5059,"date":"2017-02-28T20:57:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T20:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hovatek.com\/?p=5059"},"modified":"2018-03-07T20:20:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T20:20:11","slug":"verified-account-the-newest-hovatek-forum-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/verified-account-the-newest-hovatek-forum-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Verified Account &#038; Recognized Contributor; the newest Hovatek Forum Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I got a PM from a disgruntled forum member. He said he would refuse to post at the Hovatek Forum unless he was upgraded from Newbie member to Senior member because he was a &#8216;Guru&#8217;. To set the record straight, our promotion system is based on post count; i.e, the more posts you make, the higher you climb (spammy posts will be deleted). Here are the current benchmarks:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Number of posts<\/td>\n<td>Group<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>0 &#8211; 4<\/td>\n<td>Newbie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5 &#8211; 14<\/td>\n<td>Enthusiastic Member<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>15 &#8211; 39<\/td>\n<td>Junior Member<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>40 &#8211; 79<\/td>\n<td>Techie Member<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>80- 99<\/td>\n<td>Experienced Member<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>100 &#8211; 124<\/td>\n<td>Respected Member<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>125 and above<\/td>\n<td>Senior Member<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>We&#8217;re happy to announce two new groups; Verified Account and Recognized Contributor<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recognized Contributor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This group is not based on the number of posts a member has made; rather, how helpful and selfless the member in question has been at the Hovatek Forum. Team Hovatek adds members to this group based on recognition. Congratulations to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/forum\/user-3524.html\">droidmobitech<\/a> for becoming a Recognized Contributor, He&#8217;s really been helpful.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verified Account<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This group is reserved for Brands and Teams. Its similar to Facebook&#8217;s Blue Tick and Twitter&#8217;s Verified Account. Not only is this awesome for branding but is a platform for our forum members to interact with your Team or Brand. Much respect to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/forum\/user-9284.html\">DroidPeepz Inc<\/a> for the immense contribution to the Android community and being a Verified Account at the Hovatek Forum<\/p>\n<p>The Hovatek Forum is open for all to get solutions to devices issues, learn or help others. We warmly welcome your contribution and feedback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I got a PM from a disgruntled forum member. He said he would refuse to post at the Hovatek Forum unless he was upgraded from Newbie member to Senior member because he was a &#8216;Guru&#8217;. To set the record straight, our promotion system is based on post count; i.e, the more posts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}