Poll: Are Badges Good Or Bad?

[xXAsherahXx]

I like badges, but some people (you know who you are) think that badges here on The Escapist are useless and have no purpose. I like to accumulate them and be like "yay I have a lot of badges". The same goes for me and Zune.

What do you guys think?

 

[Radeonx]

Where's the indifference option?
I don't care if they are there or not, because they are virtually meaningless.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

They're just something to go "oh look, I got a badge..." I really wouldn't care if they were removed, they just serve no purpose.

 

[xXAsherahXx]

Where's the indifference option?
I don't care if they are there or not, because they are virtually meaningless.

That's what the last 2 options are for.

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

They're neither, just there.
They don't really cause problems, even if they are useless.
Well outside of the occasional person trying to badge-Farm by making an ungodly amount of Low-Content Threads in an attempt to get Badges, but they usually get set straight one way or another.

While they are mostly useless, they rarely do anything wrong, and have occasionally held some form of function in the past (AvP Badges showed which side you chose, that's something I suppose).

I say that they are "There", and nothing more.

Oh, and try to have only 1 Irrelevant option, if not none at all.

 

[w@rew0lf]

They're nice little tokens and they can give small insights to the users that wear them so I think them good.

 

[Miumaru]

I like collecting things, so yes I like them.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

Where's the indifference option?
I don't care if they are there or not, because they are virtually meaningless.

That's what the last 2 options are for.

I thought Shiny Charizard might be to show off my badges...
[small]And the fact I still have my Shiny Charizard in the attic.[/small]

I like them because the ones for watching videos & posting, among others, encourage community interaction. The top 4 people display also reveal a lot about them and to a certain extent, how they're seen around here. If someone has a Neo badge and one of the high reply (to their thread) badges, users can instantly tell who they are, what they do and how others seem to regard them. But as I said, only to a certain extent, there are always exceptions.

 

[Jackalb]

Yes, but I am also a cheevo whore.

Also Shiny Charizard.

 

[Ekit]

I like the badges But I'm an achievement whore...

 

[Marter]

They are there solely to show off what you have done to other users. Some badges, like the Neo badge are actually accomplishments, and I have no issue with them. It's the useless badges that don't really serve a purpose that annoy me a bit. Those ones don't serve any purpose.