Currently, there is one milestone award you get it either if you have been on the site for 15 years or you accumulated 10k posts after 10 years or you accumulated 20k posts after 5 years:
It's a Milestone award but you can not tell me what milestone one with the award actually clears. You can only tell me a set of them. What's being awarded there is three different thresholds that do not have a coherent connection. I believe a more tiered approach would suit this award better and make it more interesting. The idea is to have two awards; one for lifetime and the other for activity. With my proposal you clearly know what milestone one cleared away. The criteria here is specific and coherently incremental.TWC Milestone Award
Awarded to those who have been on TWC for 5 years and have accumulated 20,000 posts or to those who have been on TWC for 10 years and have accumulated 10,000 posts or to those who have been on TWC for 15 years regardless of how many posts they have accumulated, and have posted at the least once after becoming eligible as per one of the listed conditions.
Obviously, a new award design is required. For that, perhaps, our resident designers would like to pitch in. A sand clock for the lifetime one might be appropriate.
Lifetime Awards
Bronze: 5 years (with 500 posts)
Silver: 10 years (with 1000 posts)
Gold: 15 years (with 1500 posts)
Platinum: 20 years (with 2000 posts)
Activity Awards
Bronze: 10k posts
Silver: 20k posts
Gold: 30k posts
Platinum: 40k posts
Diamond: 50k posts
Lifetime awards:
Bronze Lifetime Award
Bronze Lifetime Award is given to those who have been on TWC for 5 years and have accumulated 500 posts, and have posted at the least once after becoming eligible as per one of the listed conditions. Award period is based on last login date.Silver Lifetime Award
Silver Lifetime Award is given to those who have been on TWC for 10 years and have accumulated 1,000 posts, and have posted at the least once after becoming eligible as per one of the listed conditions. Award period is based on last login date.Gold Lifetime Award
Gold Lifetime Award is given to those who have been on TWC for 15 years and have accumulated 1,500 posts, and have posted at the least once after becoming eligible as per one of the listed conditions. Award period is based on last login date.Activity awards:Platinum Lifetime Award
Platinum Lifetime Award is given to those who have been on TWC for 20 years and have accumulated 2,000 posts, and have posted at the least once after becoming eligible as per one of the listed conditions. Award period is based on last login date.
Bronze Activity Award
Bronze Activity Award is given to those who have accumulated 10,000 posts on TWC, and have posted at the least once after becoming eligible as per the listed condition.Silver Activity Award
Silver Activity Award is given to those who have accumulated 20,000 posts on TWC, and have posted at the least once after becoming eligible as per the listed condition.Gold Activity Award
Gold Activity Award is given to those who have accumulated 30,000 posts on TWC, and have posted at the least once after becoming eligible as per the listed condition.Platinum Activity Award
Platinum Activity Award is given to those who have accumulated 40,000 posts on TWC, and have posted at the least once after becoming eligible as per the listed condition.Made the tiers based on currently and soon to be eligible members. Obviously the current, Milestone award would be deleted.Diamond Activity Award
Diamond Activity Award is given to those who have accumulated 50,000 posts on TWC, and have posted at the least once after becoming eligible as per the listed condition.
EDIT 1: Pulled down post requirements for Lifetime awards by half.
EDIT 2: Added some arguments to the reasoning.
EDIT 3: Added clarification for what would happen to the current award.