Since no replies have come I will elaborate a bit:
The badge “Nice reply” is supposed to be automatically granted to replies that gets 10 or more likes.
ringling’s bagde list says his last “Nice reply” badge was granted May 31st.
I just skimmed through some of his replies and these got 10 or more likes:
This reply from July 26th: http://forum.e-liquid-recipes.com/t/just-plain-funnies/63255/3579
This reply from June 22nd: http://forum.e-liquid-recipes.com/t/just-plain-funnies/63255/3352
This reply from June 22nd: http://forum.e-liquid-recipes.com/t/just-plain-funnies/63255/3348
This reply from June 20th: http://forum.e-liquid-recipes.com/t/just-plain-funnies/63255/3333
He says he sometimes gets notified of a new badge, it goes from 36 to 37 and later it goes back to 36 again…
At one point he had a good deal over 200 of them. Now it’s 36.