The discussion revolves around a proposed feature to display granted badges directly underneath posts in Discourse, enhancing visibility and preventing duplicate awards. ChrisBeach suggests showing the badge icon and granter’s avatar below the post, similar to mod PM notifications, to avoid redundancy and promote community engagement. 8BIT praises the new “Grant Badge” button, while xrav3nz questions whether multiple grants of the same badge to the same post should be allowed. ChrisBeach clarifies that duplicate grants should not be permitted and the badge should be hidden or greyed out once granted. Krischan supports the idea, suggesting styling posts with awarded badges differently via CSS. nedbat expresses interest in making badges more prominent. sam raises concerns about performance, proposing a workaround using staff notes linked to badges, which could be automated with a checkbox.
I agree, it would be great to see badges awarded to a certain post in its context, so that other users might feel motivated to get this badge as well. As an alternative, posts who got a badge could have its own class, so that they can be styled differently in the css.
Are there any plans to implement this? In general, I wish badges in Discourse were more prominent. I love the idea of rewarding desired behavior. If a post is that behavior, why not make the granting visible to everyone? It will encourage more of the behavior we want.
Add a staff note to the posts you assign badges for, it can link to the badge.
I feel this resolves the OP really cleanly and wonder if we should just have some way of doing this automatically by adding a checkbox. But a workaround exists now and is super clean.
is awesome. saves me a 1,000 steps.
