Badge progress bar - a not-so-complicated idea about "my upcoming badges"

[ToddZ]

I’ve seen a few different discussions around this idea ^[1] and personally I land where Tobias did:

Showing this information to users creates incentives that arguably are unhealthy. People in the community should just focus on showing up regularly, being valuable contributors and members, and the kudos and recognition follow naturally from that.

A bit of gamification via recognition is one thing, but exposing the precise mechanisms to clout-chasing is another. If that’s the general consensus, it’s probably why this hasn’t gone anywhere.

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1. View progress towards a badge?, Badge Progress Trackers, Show badges progress, ↩︎