# Badge given even if not active
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/badge-given-even-if-not-active/48756
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [17. August 2016 um 20:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badge-given-even-if-not-active/48756 "2016-08-17T20:13:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Silvanus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Silvanus)
#### Post date: [17. August 2016 um 20:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badge-given-even-if-not-active/48756/1 "2016-08-17T20:13:55Z")
Hiya! In my forum, we noticed that the badge (here especially “First Onebox”) is given (i.e. a notification is sent) even if the badge isn’t active. This leads to a problem, when the badge isn’t active: the notification link leads into a “not found”, and the badge isn’t listed in the list of badges for that user (that still got the message).
To clarify: Badge notification is sent, even if it’s not active.
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### Author:  [@Silvanus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Silvanus)
#### Post date: [17. August 2016 um 20:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badge-given-even-if-not-active/48756/2 "2016-08-17T20:16:34Z")
Also, probably a locale problem, but when users earn their badges, they are sent a message with the English title of that badge, despite the forum otherwise using Finnish locale.
Notification is, for example: “Ansaitsit ‘Reader’” (You earned ‘Reader’). In other places this badge is named in Finnish “Lukutoukka”.
(Maybe this message should be moved to locale/translation area…)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [17. August 2016 um 20:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badge-given-even-if-not-active/48756/3 "2016-08-17T20:44:24Z")
Did you disable all badges via the site setting?
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### Author:  [@Silvanus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Silvanus)
#### Post date: [17. August 2016 um 20:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badge-given-even-if-not-active/48756/4 "2016-08-17T20:59:22Z")
No, badges are enabled globally (`enable badges` is checked).
The First Onebox badge was separately turned off in the badges list.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [17. August 2016 um 21:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badge-given-even-if-not-active/48756/5 "2016-08-17T21:16:40Z")
This might be a bug then @sam
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [19. August 2016 um 02:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badge-given-even-if-not-active/48756/6 "2016-08-19T02:47:26Z")
Yup, we have the same issue.
[I reported it here a while back.](https://meta.discourse.org/t/404-when-clicking-on-badge-link-which-shouldnt-exist/47321)
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [19. August 2016 um 19:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badge-given-even-if-not-active/48756/7 "2016-08-19T19:18:10Z")
Here’s a fix for the granting behaviour.
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/4061725a95f5013d0701e2c5ed6dc79f78e14dae](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/4061725a95f5013d0701e2c5ed6dc79f78e14dae)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [22. August 2016 um 20:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badge-given-even-if-not-active/48756/8 "2016-08-22T20:05:24Z")
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