I got a message to type this into my reply to receive further information on a promotion. Nothing happened so not sure what to do next?
Hi Jim,
@discobot is a computer AI that runs on the Memoir '44 forum. It’s purpose is to help teach you how to use most of the features in Discourse, which is the Software that the forum uses. If you head over to your messages by clicking on your profile picture on the top right, you’ll see you have a message there from discobot that reads “greetings!”:
After you click this message you’ll navigate to a separate conversation with discobot. This page is a private message section that you have with this Forum AI (you can talk with other users too), and it requests you to try out some things so you explore the features of this website. If you make it all the way to the end of the tasks, you will get a forum badge and a weird looking “certificate” image:
When you browse the forum enough times, you get prompted with a notification to try out the advanced tutorial. To do this, all you need to do is to go to your conversation with discobot and send out the following message:
@discobot start advanced tutorial
This will prompt the advanced tutorial like you can see in the picture above 
To be clear, the only thing you’ll get out of it, aside from learning how to navigate around better, is forum badges, which get displayed when people click on your profile picture. You can click on my profile picture to see which badges I have.
You will win the Certified badge upon completing the first user tutorial (the one that starts when discobot sends you the greetings message) and also the Licensed badge on completion of the advanced tutorial.