Badges are live.... beta rollout!

(...)Now trying to defend it.

No, that is not my purpose. I think the badges want be more sense, if they are awarded for honorable members or proper occasions. So a badge can be awarded for instance whenever a member has an anniversary on TSR, say 10 years membership. Even an award for helpful members would make sense, but for this occasions there is the member of the year vote, isn't it? but why not? why the badges should not be awarded after such a vote for the best members, say the first, the second and the third?

I wasn't referring to you.

The votes for 'best' posters are just popularity contests.

Badges are useless, just like the follow button.

Fair enough. So I have no idea how the importance of these badges can be increased.

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Something which I don't think has been raised yet: has the CT considered that people will scour the unanswered threads, and post in areas where they do not have expertise, just to get badges?

They can't really. TSR is putting recognition above interaction. In other words, it's all about accumulating pointless stuff rather than being part of a community.

Something which I don't think has been raised yet: has the CT considered that people will scour the unanswered threads, and post in areas where they do not have expertise, just to get badges?

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These distinctions would indeed be deserved if they were awarded my mods or after elections, rather than automatically.

I cannot make any sense of your post.

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These distinctions would be more deserved if they were awarded my mods or after elections, rather than automatically.

I quite like the badges. And I don't think that they are childish . Another website I am a member of has had badges for many years - lots of different ones, in fact - and its membership is, on the whole, older than the membership of TSR.

To be fair, it is a writing website, and a good portion of the badges are genre related. The system is different as well - members can give badges to other members, for example if they really love their work, or they can be won in writing contests. Some badges can only be given out by moderators, senior moderators and staff. (For some examples - http://www.writing.com/main/profile/community/kittiara ). TSR is a forum, though, so it has a whole different set-up, and they have to figure out how to make it work, and how it make it work fairly.

We're only in the early stages of the badge system, and I am sure that there will be tweaks along the way. Why dismiss it before it's even properly got started?

We're only in the early stages of the badge system, and I am sure that there will be tweaks along the way. Why dismiss it before it's even properly got started?

There is no point having two systems with overlapping aims. Badges and rep overlap. Some badges depend on being repped! How bizarre.

Also, as I mentioned before, people will reply to any thread to try to get badges. Badge-fishing will be the new norm, along with rep-whoring, and mod/CT brown-nosing.

Why support something before its use has actually been justified? She-Ra already mentioned that there is no strategy whatsoever. They're just going to 'develop' it, whatever that means.

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Do people really practice rep-whoring? There's no point, is there? With neg rep gone, anyone who's been here long enough will have a decent amount of rep. Personally, I don't care about the amount of rep gems that I have. I mean, what does it matter?

Rep was also important on individual posts - immediate indication of the standing of a piece of advice.

Er, no. Rep on a post is just an indication on how many people agree with an opinion, or find a joke funny. Rep as an indicator of credibility has never been a thing, and badges are not designed to do that either.