There are many, many people deserving of badges around here if your going to be giving them out, always kind of made me feel slightly uneasy though. Particularly when it started with FPSC BOTB and there were no badges for DBP users etc. I remember Butterfingers being ribbed around here for being one of the first to have a BOTB badge.
I don't think it helps with new users or whatever when questions are asked, simply because they wouldn't either know what these badges were and the simple fact that answers are meaningful/helpful or they are not.
I personally wouldn't be asking for any badges as I believe they should be issued to users as acknowledgement for their achievements/generosity/value to the community and asking for this instead of receiving it, seems to me to diminish the value of any badges issued.
Having said that I can understand why Mods would want people to say if they feel they have been overlooked at this point but in the long run its going to disappoint some folks if they feel they aren't
worthy when asking for them and they don't receive.
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