[dr_dave]

@Bill Brown – Back in an earlier incarnation, before we had the two-sided TAC from which we just migrated within the last wek, I once had a screen pop up to congratulate me on a Golden Pick award. I never even found out what it was. I wonder if that’s a skeleton or if they have re-instituted something that existed in the early days of TAC. I say that because I now miraculously again can see the old conversations I had with other members during my first six months of membership in 2017.

Some months ago, I asked some people if they knew anything about that old “Golden Pick” screen that popped up for me in the “old-old” version of TAC (the pre-“Community” iteration that prevailed in late 2017). Sharon T (Mama TAC, whose name I was unable to tag – maybe I made a mistake) told me that Tony handed out some golden picks at a TAC Jamboree m, the original incarnation of what morphed into the “Acoustic Life Festival” when they outgrew Buck’s T4 Lodge. (Edited – OK, I found out Sharon spells her name @mommatac – rats, it still does jot appear to have tagged her!)

Also, the older single-site version of TAC had a points system. Rathe than accumulating points from how many posts you made or how many “likes” you got, the points were conferred based on completion of lessons, learning songs from the vault, completing special challenges, etc. I’m reading into the current state of the website that TAC central does not want to foster competition of any kind. I guess I’m OK with or with out badges, points etc. I don’t think they affect me positively or negatively, but I confess some preference for any recognition to be achievement-based as related to learning guitar playing or other aspects of music.

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