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TutorialOct 20, 2026

Designing a badge system people actually care about

Lessons from rewarding repeatable community behaviors without turning every interaction into a points farm.

A badge should recognize a story, not merely fill a progress bar. ‘Published five field-tested tutorials’ tells me something about a member. ‘Clicked the page fifty times’ does not.

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Keep it moving.

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Rina Patel2 days ago

Multiple axes matter so much. Otherwise the person who writes one careful response a week always looks less valuable than the person posting constantly.

Alex Rivera2 days ago

I like that tenure is additive rather than a shortcut to the highest contribution level. The two signals say different things.