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Should some badges be dropped? Which ones?

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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
One of the issues I see regularly on this site are some nonsensical questions, often posted many times in one day, by the same members in many cases. One could assume these unscrupulous entries were for the purposes of gaining badges for posting questions and comments. I call these members "badge bandits". So why not just drop these badges? The posts could still count toward "influence" if the site admin so desires, but why give people an incentive to post these entries to gain badges? Are there any other badges you feel should not be available?
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Ed Tsyitee Jr Consultant | Consultant Tucson, Az, United States
I think the Fire starter and Instigator badges need to be either eliminated or at least the requirements have to be reviewed. I could ask a question like What is a project managers favorite food and why? or When you make a sandwich which process do you use-waterfall or agile? and get the badge. So, yes, I think it's something that should be reviewed.
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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
My thoughts exactly about those 2 badges. And the questions get a lot worse than the examples you gave.
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Vincent Guerard Coach - Trainer - Speaker - Advisor| Freelance Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada
Sante, getting back to the idea of moderator. Why not scan entry to questions, posts and comments before awarding a badge. This would discourage "badge bandits"!

For the badges I would make them more progressive. I would remove or replace badge that are no longer available.

Interesting to see more post here, since I understand they plan on improving on the UX.
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1 reply by Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
Jul 11, 2017 11:42 PM
Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
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Yes many badges aren't valid anymore, so it seems weird to display them.
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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Jul 11, 2017 9:20 PM
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Sante, getting back to the idea of moderator. Why not scan entry to questions, posts and comments before awarding a badge. This would discourage "badge bandits"!

For the badges I would make them more progressive. I would remove or replace badge that are no longer available.

Interesting to see more post here, since I understand they plan on improving on the UX.
Yes many badges aren't valid anymore, so it seems weird to display them.

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