Here’s how we’re ranking the groups for the many cases where someone belongs to more than one (this is purely for prioritising your group - we love all of you!)
If you invested in Round 3 and a previous round, we’ll add you to the Round 3 group in the big batch once we get the details from Crowdcube.
Right now, the only forum identifier is the flair and you can only sport one at a time. So for now, it doesn’t make a difference to be added to an extra group. In the future, we might have extra forum goodies for multiple round investors so you will definitely be added.
A share>R1>R2>R3
If you’re an investor in any of these groups and signed up to the forum with the same email you used for Crowdcube, we’ve added you to into your group already.
We’ll also add any Round 3 investors currently in the forum to their group when we get the list from Crowdcube.
If you’ve just joined the forum, buzz us (@Toby, @Viktor) and we’ll add you!
@Freetrade_Team@adam I appreciate wanting to recognise and reward A share investors, but I feel on this heirarchy R1 investor has more weight than A share investors as it shows those that have been in from the beginning. New A shareholders will come in from R3, which is fantastic, but we may never have made it to R3 with even the smallest of R1 investors. How about further dividing A share badges into the rounds they joined?
Hi @GMCay, we debated this ourselves. We did consider maybe R1 had more cache but concluded that A shares were ultimately better going forward. Be happy to switch you to an R1 flair for now if you prefer?
Personally feel that further sub-badges might be too much, but could be a solution. Let’s canvass the community and the team!
It’s fairly granular already, I reckon don’t slice it up any further.
Pre-launch the community focus has rightly been on investment, but post-launch a lot of emphasis should move to product usage, right? So you might find you want to add a dimension indicating a user’s usage of FT - whether a user trades or not, or whether they’re alpha or not, or whatever. At that point it might make sense to collapse the R1, R2, R3, A share groups down to is-an-investor. I know that being an investor and being a trader are orthogonal, so you might be one, neither or both, so it Gets Complicated, but I wouldn’t add more complication now
