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 …

Badges not being granted for restricted categories

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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