Achievements

Achievements record things you have done on Democratia — cast your first ballot, run a poll that reached a result, suggested an option other people voted for. Each is unlocked once, pays a fixed number of points into your points balance, and stays on your record afterwards.

You can see all of them, including the ones you have not reached, on your points and rewards page.

They are earned, never drawn

There is nothing random here. Every achievement has a stated condition and a stated value, both visible before you earn it. Meeting the condition unlocks it; nothing else does. There is no chance element, no reward you might get, and no way to obtain one except by doing the thing it describes.

Paths

Some achievements sit behind others. Regular voter asks for ten completed ballots, and becomes reachable only once First choice — which asks for one — is unlocked. This is not an extra obstacle: by the time you have ten ballots you passed one long ago. The purpose is to show the shape of the thing, so a long path reads as a sequence rather than as seventeen unrelated boxes.

The rewards page draws these paths from left to right, so what an achievement is waiting for sits to its left. An achievement whose path is incomplete is marked Locked.

Each achievement shows one of five states, in words as well as by icon and colour — so the state is never carried by colour alone:

Two ways to read them

The rewards page shows the achievements twice, on purpose.

The tree draws them as framed tiles wired to their prerequisites, so you can see the shape of each path at a glance and where you have got to. The frame tells you what kind of achievement it is — a plain square for something done once, a cut-cornered tile for one that counts up to a target, and a spiked frame for the rare one. Selecting a tile describes it underneath.

The list below gives every achievement with its full description, requirement and value, grouped by category. That is the one to read when deciding what to go and do; the tree is for seeing how far along you are.

Neither is an image. Both are ordinary text and structure, so a screen reader reads the paths in the same order the tree draws them.

Progress

Achievements with a target — ten ballots, five polls, a thirty-day streak — show a progress bar and the current count. Progress is recalculated from your actual history rather than counted up as events arrive, so it is always the true number and repeating an action never inflates it.

Progress also never goes down. If a poll you voted in is cancelled afterwards, the progress you had towards Dedicated voter stays where it was, and anything already unlocked stays unlocked — you did cast the ballot, and cancelling was somebody else's decision.

Achievements without a target have no bar. They are either done or not.

The full list

Seventeen achievements, in seven groups. The Target column is the count needed; a dash means it is done once.

Getting started

Voting

A ballot counts once the poll it was cast in has closed. A ballot in a poll still running is not yet a completed one.

Organising polls

The extra condition on the last one matters: twenty-five polls run with the same two colleagues do not qualify. It asks for polls that involved a community, not polls that merely existed.

Ideas

Community

"Meaningfully" means the same thing here as it does in the points rules: a completed ballot, or an option of yours that reached a ballot. Calendar weeks, so a gap of one week restarts the count.

Daily rewards

See daily rewards for how streaks work.

Hidden

There is exactly one hidden achievement, deliberately. It is not a trick and not harder than the others — one specific, pleasant thing, and finding it is the point. A page full of question marks would tell you nothing about what Democratia values, so there is one and no more.

Once you earn it, it reveals itself completely: there is nothing left to spoil.

What achievements do not do

They are not permissions. An achievement is never a threshold for taking part in a poll, never a qualification other people can see, and never something another account can grant you. Only their points reach the rankings, the same as points earned any other way.

They do not expire, and nothing takes them away. Deleting your account removes them along with everything else; nothing short of that does.

They are also not configurable by administrators. Achievements are defined in the application's source, which means a new one arrives as a change somebody reviewed — not as a row somebody inserted.

If a count looks wrong

Progress is recomputed from your history whenever something relevant happens, so it corrects itself. If a number looks wrong and stays wrong after your next ballot or poll, that is worth reporting — repeating the action will produce the same number, because the number is derived rather than accumulated.