'Grant Badge' What is this?

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I became a moderator in a discourse community. While checking the admin options. I saw ‘Grant badge’. I clicked on it, and there were no badges.

So my question is that what is this and what does it help to do? When do we need it?

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Grant a badge to individual users manually

This is a guide for manually granting a custom badge to individual users on Discourse. Required user level: Administrator In this guide, you’ll learn how to create and manually grant a custom badge to individual users. A new “Scholar” badge will be created as an example. This guide is only applicable for custom badges. To manually grant one of Discourse’s built in badges, you will need to follow: Bulk Award a badge to a set of users Create a …

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thank you!!!