I’m running self-hosted Discourse 3.6.0.beta1-dev, and one user asked me to revoke the “First Like” badge from them. I’ve been trying for days to do this, but every time I revoke the badge it comes back within a day. I have followed instructions from this topic . Every time the badge comes back, it i…

I believe this is because the job to grant badges will run daily. The badge is given because the user liked that post. You’ll likely have to remove the like on that post from that user, probably using the Rails console. Or perhaps, increase the post undo action window mins setting temporarily, unli…

The user already removed the like a couple of days ago, but the badge keeps being added for the same post. They even tried liking another post instead, but that didn’t change the post that the badge appears for. Do you know which job is doing this?

@KockaAdmiralac were you able to resolve this issue? This is not an issue the team is going to be able to devote time to resolving, given it is unique to one member on one site. I’ve never heard of anyone wanting to do this before.

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Moin September 22, 2025, 9:27pm 5

I think the discussion continued in First Like badge cannot be removed

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