I have a strange behavior on my forum. Basic badges (such as first like, first emoji etc.) that should be grated to users are not granted. Only admin users are granted these badges, while normal users are not. So for example, I can login as a normal user, and like as many posts as I want, and use …

So, in other words, the rationale behind this feature is that, for fairness and openness sake, and to enable public audit of these “achievements”, any user must be able to verify the badges earned by somebody so that there is no chance of favoritism.

Sorry to bump this up again. I understand that badges are not awarded for topics in restricted categories, however this leads to a very strange user experience. For example, my forum has both restricted categories and open categories. People mostly participate in restricted categories, where they…

I really don’t know, as I recall this was a decision @sam made long ago, it is unclear to me why this is a desired behavior.

Cause the system is not auditable if we did that Now anyone can see who has a badge and why they have said badge

And existing badges are removed, if topics / posts that originally triggered the badge are moved to secure categories, as I recall.

Could a compromise be that actions related to a specific post in a restricted category just display as private or even better show to users with rights to see that post? Alternatively just turn off the info displayed about the reason for the badge via a setting. The admins can dig around in the da…

[image] scombs: Could a compromise be that actions related to a specific post in a restricted category just display as private or even better show to users with rights to see that post? Yes (though I’m not sure *exactly * what you mean here), I also think it would make sense to restrict infor…

[image] tophee: a setting that turns off the badge audit trail altogether and then awards badges regardless of restrictions. This I think will satisfy a lot of people running mostly-restricted forums.

Badges not being granted for restricted categories

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sam (Sam Saffron) September 13, 2017, 6:49am 21

I can see a site setting, default off, for “allow badges on restricted categories”

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