# Badges don't work in private / restricted topics

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**Created:** [August 3, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-dont-work-in-private-restricted-topics/67413 "2017-08-03T22:30:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![daath](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/daath/32/115536_2.png) [@daath](https://meta.discourse.org/u/daath)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badges-dont-work-in-private-restricted-topics/67413/1 "2017-08-03T22:30:29Z")

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A user on my forum, who apparently is really into his “Nice reply”-badges, notified me that his “Nice reply”-badge count went from \>200 to 36 - and that it no longer counts… I am guessing this a bug.

This is the user:

> **[Nice Reply badge on E-Liquid Recipes Forum](https://forum.e-liquid-recipes.com/badges/6/nice-reply?username=ringling)**

Here is a thread with \>3000 replies in it, where a lot of his replies have \>10 likes and should be counted…

[http://forum.e-liquid-recipes.com/t/just-plain-funnies/63255](http://forum.e-liquid-recipes.com/t/just-plain-funnies/63255)

If you need any info from me, just shout 🙂 He’s pretty torn up about it 😛

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