# What has your experience been with badges in your communities?

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**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [9월 8, 2017, 3:41오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-has-your-experience-been-with-badges-in-your-communities/69597 "2017-09-08T03:41:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Drew\_Warwick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/drew_warwick/32/80591_2.png) [@Drew\_Warwick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Drew_Warwick)\
**Post date:** [9월 8, 2017, 3:41오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-has-your-experience-been-with-badges-in-your-communities/69597/1 "2017-09-08T03:41:46Z")

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In our community, we have a problem with users collecting badges – as in, contribute in a nonconstructive way for the sole purpose of attaining badges. For instance, they might:

- Like every post on a thread
- Flag a post for no reason
- Mention users pointlessly
- etc

to get the respective badges. Sometimes it’s easy to notice, but other times it’s not and we only find out because someone brags about it off-site.

This is on an invite-only community where we generally try to restrict membership to mature users, so I would think we wouldn’t be the worst hit, but maybe it’s the opposite since we have a small community (maybe 200 active users). Our solution was to disable all badges instead of starting a witch hunt, but I’m curious how other communities handle this. Is this a problem in your own community? How much of a problem is it? How do you deal with it?

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