Good stuff @grahamperrin! I also tried to enable that but didn’t seem to work.
The big issue with badges is that they are annyoing to newcomers on the forum and really noisy. That’s why I disabled them and would like to keep them disabled. Even I just got 4 more useless badge notifications which were drowning out the 2 important ones.
Please be specific. Which four? Then I’ll branch into a new topic about badges.
Thanks
Just some examples of annyoing badges:
Does anyone of you disagree with disabling the badges again @simonv3 @evalica @jdittrich @victoria-bondarchuk @belenbarrospena @ei8fdb @eppfel?
Also @grahamperrin as stated in the original post, for the title let’s please use the format of
[Role] at [open source project]
If you don’t have anything to fill out then it would be better to leave it empty. I know as an admin it’s tempting to just go for something funny, but »fuzzchops gusto kitten« just doesn’t mean anything to other people and is simply confusing. 
I personally don’t mind the badges, kind of like them, but I’ve definitely earned a couple of them more than once, so it felt a bit buggy.
I like the gamification aspect, so I don’t mid the badges (since I’m a completionist and I would like to have them all 
). Ideal we could select what badges we display since some are more nice than the others, but again this is subjective.
Like @jan, I quite dislike them and would be happy to see them go.
Having said that, I’ve developed some kind of badge blindness, so if others enjoy them, I wouldn’t want to be the one taking them away 
I had some badges popping up in the beginning but they stopped to appear. Either way, I neither mind them nor find them particularly useful. I assume they can be good for beginners, though, at least badges motivated me in my first interactions on stackoverflow. I personally knew the community and so I was motivated to have first interactions anyway, but that kind of population is rather limited, which might be a slight pro for having them.
Is there any research/data on that badges pro/con topic?
Talking about nice, what about changing the omnipresent fa-certificate to fa-paint-brush ?
I began reading some of the relevant topics a couple of months ago. In no particular order:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-badges-if-any-should-discourse-have/5933?u=grahamperrin
There’s more, beyond Discourse Meta … I might wait until after the audience here has broadened.
Can you recall which two, or (roughly) when? Thanks.
Not really unfortunately. I feel like I received a couple of the “First x” ones a couple of times. Or what may have happened is that I definitely had used something once, and then when I used it a third or fourth time, did I get a “First x” badge. Maybe discourse throttles the rate at which you get badges?
Thanks for the feedback. https://meta.discourse.org/tags/badge?order=activity I see nothing recent that might match what you describe, neither have I noticed any duplication from other Discourse instances that I joined in recent weeks … although one or two of those might be unusual.
Let’s be watchful for reports from future users.
In the meantime, if improper repetition is suspected, what’s here may be a good hint:
