General Do you like badges?

[MrDawn]

Do you like badges? Are you into that kind of thing?

I'm personally not a fan of them. I feel like they're just clutter.

 

[Shortie]

I love to see badges on forums and also love coming up with ideas for badges that community members can earn by doing different tasks within the forum.

I feel as long as they are done right, they can work really well.

 

[Cory]

I don't use them on my forum, but they're nice to see sometimes when you can get a vision of a user's accomplishments through the use of the badges.

 

[MrDawn]

I love to see badges on forums and also love coming up with ideas for badges that community members can earn by doing different tasks within the forum.

I don't use them on my forum, but they're nice to see sometimes when you can get a vision of a user's accomplishments through the use of the badges.

You guys are welcome to my two badges

 

[Ravenfreak]

I like badges I think they're cool! It's neat to earn badges as I participate on forums.

 

[MrDawn]

I like badges I think they're cool! It's neat to earn badges as I participate on forums.

I think we should use them as currency here too. I'd spend mine on a 12 ounce bottle of Pepsi....

 

[Nomad]

I don't care about badges. I don't have badges on my forums. However, I also believe some badges such as the number of post created (for example, 1k post club) or number of years spent (for instance 5 years veteran) can be a good way to appreciate active contributors.

 

[Old Nick]

This can increase the engagement of some users but I prefer to see the badges displayed on their profile page that in each post below their username.

On the one hand because it weighs down the design and on the other hand because somewhere it ranks people and some could be intimidated and it could hinder their engagement in the community.