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 t…

It's just the defaults of Discourse, they weren't added for any good reason, it would take work to remove them. And they don't really harm anyone.

I suspect the "badge" stuff is just the default for Discourse and nobody has bothered to change them. For example, I'm a moderator and I never even knew we had badges! :stuck_out_tongue:

Better jump in late than start a new thread about the same thing. The badges are starting to be really annoying. I just “earned” a badge for my first emoji. :man_facepalming: (Will I get a silver badge for facepalming at my previous bronze badge?) This is clearly a design that was made without thin…

[image] Fredrik: Better jump in late than start a new thread about the same thing. Generally it’s better to start a new thread. AFAIK, these old thread are only not closed because there wasn’t a default “thread closes automatically after x amount of time since last post” setting at the time t…

Note: this was actually fixed upstream this spring: FIX: Skip notifications about beginner badges by AndrewPrigorshnev · Pull Request #12819 · discourse/discourse · GitHub "First X" badges might be annoying - #5 by matklad - support - Discourse Meta

Is flagging a topic supposed to be anonymous? Now everyone can see that I've earned a badge for “First Flag” and that I earned it at precisely the same time as I was interacting with a particular thread. This indicates that badges may not just be useless, but downright treacherous.

Feels like a bug, https://meta.discourse.org/ is probably the right place to report it.

The timing leak has been reported in the past and dismissed as not of great consequence: on any forum where someone is malicious enough to care about when you first flagged something, you're likely to raise more than one.

Getting rid of the “First Flag” badge entirely would also not be of any negative consequence, so it's sad to hear that the timing leak has been considered less important than keeping a badge which serves no purpose whatsoever.

Do we really need the first badges?

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Do we really need the first badges?

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