Hello!
This is purely subjective but maybe there is other peoples here sharing my point of view:
I realize there is a huge amount of useless badges. Do we really need the: “Congratulation, you’ve created your first post!”… You can have a lot of “Earned 'First ’ badge” message when you start on the forum.
There is some good arguments having a forum with a badges system (specially for novice web users). I personally consider the “like” system a good way to promote quality content. But does a developpement langage really need so many “First/10/100 badges”?
What’s your perspective on this? Maybe this as already been discussed.
Keep the good work! This forum is very helpful indeed!