New Badges should not permit using as a title by default

User Story:

My forum specifically disallows giving personal advice. Recently there was a new badge, “Guidance Counselor” and by default users could add this as a title in their user profile.

This created some confusion and required that after I disabled the title for this badge, I had to go into each user with the badge and make sure they hadn’t added it as a title.

If removing the permission to use the badge as a title pulled that title from users who had set it, then it would not be much of an issue (although still annoying). But the fact that there is no easy way to reverse makes me think this should be off by default.

And just to emphasize my point…

I just realized that there was not one new badge, but three all together. So I now have to go back in and remove them as well.

This really doesn’t feel like great UX.