# New user of the month, is it working?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-of-the-month-is-it-working/78270
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [1월 17, 2018, 2:28오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-of-the-month-is-it-working/78270 "2018-01-17T14:28:48Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [1월 18, 2018, 12:55오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-of-the-month-is-it-working/78270/4 "2018-01-18T00:55:39Z")

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The way the badge works is based on active validation of other users, e.g. likes.

Simply posting 100 times isn’t enough to earn the badge; you’d need to get a fair number of likes, more than other new users.

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