# Creating awareness about a forum

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-awareness-about-a-forum/30371
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [June 23, 2015, 12:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-awareness-about-a-forum/30371 "2015-06-23T12:57:28Z")
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### Author: ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2015, 1:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-awareness-about-a-forum/30371/6 "2015-06-23T13:36:56Z")

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This topic has some ideas for how to turn certain types of activity into badges:

> [@\[Superseded\] What cool badge queries have you come up with?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-cool-badge-queries-have-you-come-up-with/18978):
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> warning Enabling Badge SQL entails security and performance risks so it is not available by default. For more information, see: [Enable Badge SQL](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badge-sql-can-no-longer-be-edited-by-default/47894) This topic became too long to be easily searched and has been broken down into separate topics. If you have any questions about how to write a badge query, or have one to share, please start a new topic in the #data & reporting category and tag it with the #sql-triggered-badge tag. +1 More ideas: [Some common badge queries](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-common-badge-queries-idea/31859)

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