# What has your experience been with badges in your communities? **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Building\ **Created:** [8 Septiembre, 2017 03:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-has-your-experience-been-with-badges-in-your-communities/69597 "2017-09-08T03:41:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)\ **Post date:** [10 Septiembre, 2017 22:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-has-your-experience-been-with-badges-in-your-communities/69597/10 "2017-09-10T22:49:22Z")
That’s cool – I love a good debate as much as the next girl. I don’t disagree with your individual points, just that they don’t always apply to all communities IMO. But that’s what’s great about Discourse – you can customise it to fit your audience. I think that badges are _one form_ of education mechanism, but the downside can be that their proliferation can devalue the other badges. The bronze-sliver-gold tiers make sense to you but I’m not sure that they are wholly intuitive for everyone. Sometimes it can just feel like “oh… _another_ badge”. > [@codinghorror](#): > > but someone has to do that work Of course, but a good CM will have a gamification strategy and the time and resources required to make that work will be factored in. > [@codinghorror](#): > > I’d also argue, at quite some length, that long term participation is critical to the survival of any community No argument from me on that. What I’m saying is that I don’t believe that the default silver and gold badges _do_ incentivize that for all groups. In summary, I think the existing badge system is excellent out-of-the-box but I’d encourage people to think about whether it customising it for their own environment might add value _in some cases_. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-has-your-experience-been-with-badges-in-your-communities/69597)._