Question about badges on forums

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:left_speech_bubble: Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. — Henry J. Kaiser

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@discobot no quote
Lol, nothing happened. I am its Master.

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@discobot ;
0 days visited, still a Leader.
It’s unfair.

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Hi! To find out what I can do, say @discobot display help.

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@discobot start new user

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Hi! To find out what I can do, say @discobot display help.

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@discobot display help

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I currently know how to do the following things:

@discobot start {name-of-tutorial}

Starts an interactive tutorial. {name-of-tutorial} can be one of: tutorial, advanced tutorial.

@discobot roll 2d6

:game_die: 3, 6

@discobot quote

:left_speech_bubble: Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you — Princess Diana

@discobot fortune

:crystal_ball: You may rely on it

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@discobot start tutorial

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@discobot fortune

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:crystal_ball: My reply is no

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@discobot quote

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:left_speech_bubble: When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. — Audre Lorde

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You don’t need a new topic for this question. I don’t know why Discourse didn’t issue you the badge you want. Reply to this with the post where your 1000 click link is and your post with 50 likes and I’ll look at it and try to issue you the badge you want.

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Sorry for that and thank you.

https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/lumen-homestead-wip-updated-nov-30/67087

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The real answer as it turns out: badges don’t issue to posts in locked categories like Adult. We have to make changes to the back end of Discourse to make this work. I can’t just issue the badge to you.

Unfortunately, this requires someone other than me to fix and I’m sorry to tell you it’s fairly low priority/non-mission critical right now. We’ll try to get it done soon.

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I posted my topic at the hosted games/works in progress category at first back in oct, then moved it in the adult section a month after and I didn’t get any badges then, even the 25 like badge.

But, I understand I just wanted to know. Thank you.

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I don’t know what to tell you about the badges not being issued earlier, but after contacting Discourse support, they’ve made it clear that we really have no ability to issue badges for achievements in what they call “secure non-public categories.” Like Adult.

In their words: Badges are only awarded on public categories / topics and this is deeply embedded into the design.

As I said, I can’t speak to why a badge was not issued while your WIP was in a public category, but there’s nothing more I can do about it, unfortunately.

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Ya - nothing any of us can do about it :frowning:
Discourse is not my favorite back-end support … and I am leaving out a lot by saying that :slight_smile:

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So do you lose trust by not being on for a long time or can you be permanently marked as untrusted?