Displaying Employee or Super User Status on Profile Pictures in Slack

Aaron W. · 2026-09-30T21:10:28.250Z

• I'm wondering about if it's possible to display whether people are an employee or if people are a super user on their profile image in some way. • Do we need to ask them to manually update what their display name is, or ask them to manually update how their profile picture works? • The key here is that it's instantly visible, their affiliation with the Super User program or their affiliation as an employee, on their profile picture whenever their name shows up in Slack. • It would need to be a profile picture border or something like that.

Zach H.
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While ideal for them to use their profile frames to identify themselves, I do believe it should be possible to do this if you're on a pro plan. Could you test something for me? If you go to manage your members in the Slack settings (not Tightknit), do you see the ability to rename a person in the community? If you do, then we should have the API access to do the same. Let me know and then we can make the ticket! (I would test but our plans are a bit different)
Aaron W.
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Aaron W.
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Looks like I can change names
Aaron W.
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Aaron W.
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Being able to add "(Workato)" to every employee's profile would be awesome. I feel like I can do that without TK though?
Stephen C.
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Related: on the community site, you can display flair next to the members' names who are in a tightknit Group docs.tightknit.ai/community/groups#…
Aaron W.
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that is very helpful to klnow.
Zach H.
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Linear Asks Create two tickets that would allow admins to add/update people's names using their own user token:
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As they enter the community there would be a suffix that could be auto-added
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Allow them to do it manually within the studio
Carrie M. I assume you'd want this one as well?
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Carrie M.
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I would love this, yes. Like a lite badge, kinda like the way people will add emojis to their names in Slack, would be enough, but I'd be open to how it would show up.
Zach H.
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ohhhh I didn't even think of that. Like auto update their names when they are a champion, ambassador, etc
Aaron W.
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forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/…/14289289
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Aaron W.
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autodesk is the OG for this. Their khoros set up shows a numbered badge that displays their forums level that they earn over time. and because its such an old school forum, they have signatures where they can include their expert elite status. not saying TK communities should look like this because ooch ouch my eyeballs (I literally helped lead some of these redesigns hehe), but there is good stuff in here.
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Zach H.
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Well that's like we are doing with Flair ^^ But I also have another thought Linear Asks update the ticket for the "enter the community" to be:
add this user to a dynamic group (make sure it's marked blocked by this ticket)
On the group add a "suffix" capability whenever someone is added to the group
if the suffix wasn't added properly, show a warning in the group member details page

Displaying Employee or Super User Status on Profile Pictures in Slack

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Displaying Employee or Super User Status on Profile Pictures in Slack

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