# Are badges customizable?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-badges-customizable/258903
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** badges
**Created:** [March 21, 2023, 3:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-badges-customizable/258903 "2023-03-21T15:07:59Z")
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### Author: ![Rafael\_Nasser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rafael_nasser/32/298914_2.png) [@Rafael\_Nasser](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Rafael_Nasser)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2023, 3:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-badges-customizable/258903/1 "2023-03-21T15:07:59Z")

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Hey whats up everyone?

I was wanting to customize emblems so I can engage with my community in a sort of Gamification model. This way I can get them to engage, respond to posts and more.. I feel if I cant use gamification they will only read and never write, which isnt my objective.

I wanted to create an emblem for X/Y/Z Topic Responses. So if in the month they responded to 10 posts, they receive an emblem (and im warned by email) so I can give them a % discount on their subscription with my main company. Is there a way to gamify close to this or are the emblems locked? Because they lose their point if everyone is forced to use it the way Discourse wants… I would love to customize how emblems are achieved so I can engage my community further, please help! 🙂

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### Author: ![jimkleiber](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jimkleiber/32/121814_2.png) [@jimkleiber](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jimkleiber)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2023, 3:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-badges-customizable/258903/2 "2023-03-21T15:25:06Z")

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I think you mean badges and not emblems and if you do then yes they are.

Here is a guide to creating them:

> [@Creating triggered custom badge queries](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-triggered-custom-badge-queries/19336):
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> bookmark This guide explains how to create triggered custom badge queries in Discourse, including the types of badges, constraints for triggered badges, and an example query. person_raising_hand Required user level: Administrator warning This feature is disabled by default. To enable it, follow [this guide](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badge-sql-can-no-longer-be-edited-by-default/47894). When defining badges in Discourse, you’ll encounter a “Trigger” option with the following choices: Update daily When a user acts on post When a user edits or creates a post When…

Here are some examples of custom badge queries:

> [@\[Superseded\] What cool badge queries have you come up with?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-cool-badge-queries-have-you-come-up-with/18978):
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> warning Enabling Badge SQL entails security and performance risks so it is not available by default. For more information, see: [Enable Badge SQL](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badge-sql-can-no-longer-be-edited-by-default/47894) This topic became too long to be easily searched and has been broken down into separate topics. If you have any questions about how to write a badge query, or have one to share, please start a new topic in the #data & reporting category and tag it with the #sql-triggered-badge tag. +1 More ideas: [Some common badge queries](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-common-badge-queries-idea/31859)