The discussion revolves around why @eviltrout has a “Garbage Man” badge on his user card. @eviltrout explains that he created the badge to test the feature and assigned it to himself, but disabled it and didn’t create a public badge page. The badge became a team inside joke after @codinghorror noted that @eviltrout often says “garbage” to describe something he dislikes.
The conversation also touches on the topic of custom badges, with @tobiaseigen expressing interest in displaying organizational affiliations. @downey asks about the design reason behind large badge images on user cards, providing examples and linking to a related topic.
Additionally, @kensims inquires about @eviltrout’s “Best Fish” badge, which @eviltrout admits is also a test badge he had forgotten about. The discussion also highlights the pride users take in their badges, with @downey sharing examples of users on his site showcasing their badges.
I am interested however in custom badges like this - would be interesting to display for example organizational affiliation with details synced from wordpress via SSO.
When we added the ability to choose a badge to show on your card I wanted to test it out for myself, so I created the badge and assigned it to my user card. The reason there’s no public badge pages for it is because I disabled it and didn’t check off the public pages for it. It might be a bug that it still shows up on my card, but I kind of like it like this
Now, the more interesting question: why a garbage bag?
@codinghorror remarked on our team visit to Toronto that I would say “Garbage” a lot. Like, “let’s eat at this pizza place because that other one is garbage!”
I’ve been told since that it’s a Torontonian (Canadian?) thing to say it so that probably explains why he thought it was so unusual. Anyway, since then we’ve run with it; many people on the team like to point out how “Garbage” something is. We even added an emoticon for it to our Slack chat channel.
Another question in a near-attempt to hijack the topic: Is there a design reason badge images like this garbage bag are so much larger than badge icons when displayed on the user card? See also:
