modeling the behavior is something we are working on, but it depends entirely on folks seeing the behavior in a support oriented forum with lots of single threaded conversations.
The badge allows people who do the behavior to see that we appreciate it and thereby be encouraged to do more.
We don’t have access to the data explorer plugin. But if we get it, will have to figure out how to account for posts where the op is not the poster. That seems like a step two problem though. XD