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Groups
On this forum we have groups for those who are:
- Committers to Apache Kafka®
- Confluent Community Catalysts
- Confluent Staff
You can spot members of these groups through the ‘flair’ over their avatar:
Group membership is handled automatically by the forum admins - if you think you’ve been missed off, please let us know!
Badges
Discourse, which is the platform on which this forum runs, has lots of badges for everyone - for the first time you post, for writing a post that gets lots of shares, for inviting people who join. Check out the list here. Badges can be seen against a user’s profile:
We’ve also added some custom ones (with more planned) - and you can use these as the title shown after your username:
We’ve added badges for those holding Confluent Certifications:
They’ll be added to your profile automagically, so long as you have registered for this forum with the same email address against which your certification was granted.