Skills, kudos and ranks
Applies to: SimpleTwo 0.9.x · Checked: 20.09.2026
The Recognition section of a person's card: what they know, what they have been thanked for, what rank they hold. The organisation enables it separately, and only with Messaging Plus — if the sections below are missing in your app, it is switched off.
1. Skills
You declare a skill yourself, from the organisation's catalogue; if the one you need is missing you can propose it and it goes to moderation (otherwise the catalogue splits into "Postgres", "PostgreSQL" and "postgres").
Each skill has five levels, named by what the person does rather than by a percentage:
| Level | Wording |
|---|---|
| 1 | Learning |
| 2 | Applying with support |
| 3 | Working independently |
| 4 | Handling non-standard cases |
| 5 | Setting the standard, teaching others |
Endorsements. A colleague may confirm your level only if they hold that skill at least as strongly — you cannot "like" an area you do not know. An endorsement can carry context, for example "we did the migration together". Its weight scales with the endorser's own level.
Expert search. The directory can find people who declared a given skill, filtered by a minimum level. That answers "who here knows X"; it is not a ranking of people.
2. Kudos
Kudos are sent straight from the conversation: to whom, a required "what for" in one sentence, and a tag — craft, help, mentoring, results, teamwork, above and beyond.
- To a channel — the card appears where the work happened.
- Privately — it arrives in a direct conversation.
The sender has a monthly budget (five by default). It does not accumulate and resets on the first of the month: the point is that thanks stay a choice rather than a currency.
Kudos received stay on the profile permanently, with a link back to where it happened.
3. Ranks and badges
A rank is earned by meeting criteria, and the criteria are visible: "2 of 4 met", with the next rank named beside it. The criteria are concrete — confirmed skills, badges, kudos from distinct people. Message counts and "being active" are not among them.
A badge always carries two things: what it is awarded for and the evidence. Work anniversaries are separate automatic badges: tenure is respected, but it does not become a rank.
If the organisation has a loyalty programme, its balance appears here read-only, with a link into the programme itself. There is no wallet and no shopping inside the messenger.
4. What others see
Any skill, badge or the rank itself can be hidden on the profile. Hidden means only you see it — including in skill search.
The count of kudos received is not hideable: it is somebody else's act, not something you declared about yourself.
No "top people" list, no departmental tables. This is a decision, not a missing feature: a public ranking of people turns recognition into a competition and breaks the thing it was meant for.
Next
- Chats, threads and topics — where kudos are sent from
- Assistants and bots