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

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-has-your-experience-been-with-badges-in-your-communities/69597>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [2017 年9 月 8 日 03:41 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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作者： ![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)\
发布日期： [2017 年9 月 17 日 21:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-has-your-experience-been-with-badges-in-your-communities/69597/12 "2017-09-17T21:03:11Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Why not a simple “site feedback” topic telling people to get the bronze badges in the context of actual use? It’s really no different than any other form of griefing, for example, @trash was complaining that users on his site reply 3-5 times in a row rather than consolidating replies…

Not consolidating replies is easy to spot and work with users on. With badges it’s not always obvious if a borderline nonconstructive post is trying to farm badges or not. These are the kind of posts where it’s not clear if nonconstructiveness was intentional and/or users [walk the line](https://politics.stackexchange.com/a/23272/16932) – taking action would be pedantic on an individual scale, but on a large scale it’s especially noticeable.

The problem might have been that we had 100% of our users tasked with earning badges at once when we migrated, so I’m not sure if the problem would still be so prevalent. We might try to re-enable them in the future, or try to tailor them to discourage not specifically badge farming, but farming with nonconstructive actions.

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