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Profile badges and rank progress

TheFull9

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If it is possible, is there any chance we could either get the badges retroactively or just do away with the system?  I'm not saying it's the end of the world and if it's a lot of work then it makes sense to just ignore it entirely, but the fact it says I earned the 'rookie' rank in July this year does cause some minor dissonance in my brain.

 
i wouldn't worry too much, outside of a bit of fun in the early days seeing who spammed the most, i (and i presume others) haven't really bothered with them.

 
How do you mean early days?  This system only got added within the last year or so.

 
Alright, well I don't worry much rest assured, but it slightly irks me hence asking the question.

 
Alright, well I don't worry much rest assured, but it slightly irks me hence asking the question.


Gotta admit - it irked me when new-ish members with ~100 posts has a higher rank than me - because they spammed in the first few weeks of the new system.

I haven't hit the 1k mark yet largely because I try to only post if I have something worth saying. I stay well out of the new members section where there seems to be a deluge of largely useless (and in my cynical mind somewhat insincere) 'welcome to the forums' posts by those hell bent to artificially 'up' their post count and ranking.

Hey-ho. It is what it is I suppose.

 
Gotta admit - it irked me when new-ish members with ~100 posts has a higher rank than me - because they spammed in the first few weeks of the new system.

I haven't hit the 1k mark yet largely because I try to only post if I have something worth saying. I stay well out of the new members section where there seems to be a deluge of largely useless (and in my cynical mind somewhat insincere) 'welcome to the forums' posts by those hell bent to artificially 'up' their post count and ranking.

Hey-ho. It is what it is I suppose.
Well said ?

 
I'll put up a poll for this soon and we'll see if it stays or goes.

Not for peasants.

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But... yes, yes it's all rather silly.  I assume/hope that it was just a checkbox on an Invision update. I'd be happy for it to be unchecked, and never spoken of again.  Quantity is not quality.
Yeh, it was a checkbox. I think we've all had a chance to experience it by now though.

 
You could always use the Rebuild Progress and Achievements function, this would start a re-count of all members stats and badges based on the settings you have defined in the ACP for a community this large that would likely take the system 14 days to complete but its a passive background operation so it wont harm or take down the community board.

This might bring justice for the long standing members since it will re-count their entire posting history.

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There are people who spam on here for the sake of getting badges? Surely not?  Who on earth does that? Shame on you I say shame on you. ;)

 
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