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

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**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [September 8, 2017, 3:41am 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:** ![featheredtoast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/featheredtoast/32/116994_2.png) [@featheredtoast](https://meta.discourse.org/u/featheredtoast)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 10:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-has-your-experience-been-with-badges-in-your-communities/69597/8 "2017-09-08T22:04:56Z")

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This obviously isn’t possible to scale to larger communities, but for the tiny gaming community I host, I have occasionally custom created badges for users/groups of players who participated in a particular event. It’s been a small helpful motivator to get people to participate more, and serves as a fun reminder for the actual event.

Compared to the badges we hand out for event shenanegans, the system badges suddenly carry a lot less weight in that context. Someone in it just for the ‘easy’ system badges for bragging rights has less to boast about, and comes off as…

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/2/22302f08928197a497da9ea6dc0ff68a662f5582.jpg)

kind of like this.

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