System of badges :-)

yo2013
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I don't care about badges. I

I don't care about badges. I don't know what badges I have in other projects.

[AF>Le_Pommier] Jerome_C2005
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Hi I think there is an

Hi

I think there is an increasing category of crunchers that do care about badges and like to set themselves purposes to reach some of the badges, which ALWAYS benefits to the project at the end.

I don't see why "old crunchers" wouldn't like badges, if they don't like it they don't even display them, if they do it can even create a new interest for old crunchers.

I don't see how it could "harm" the project in any way.

mikey
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RE: Hi I think there is an

Quote:

Hi

I think there is an increasing category of crunchers that do care about badges and like to set themselves purposes to reach some of the badges, which ALWAYS benefits to the project at the end.

I don't see why "old crunchers" wouldn't like badges, if they don't like it they don't even display them, if they do it can even create a new interest for old crunchers.

I don't see how it could "harm" the project in any way.

I agree, badges are a recognition of the work you have completed, a sort of pat on the back and a thank you, in a group kind of way.

[AF>Le_Pommier] Jerome_C2005
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... and you actually look

... and you actually look like a USSR Army General ;-)

mikey
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RE: ... and you actually

Quote:
... and you actually look like a USSR Army General ;-)

I don't know if that's good or bad, but thanks!

[AF>Le_Pommier] Jerome_C2005
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Here is my modest

Here is my modest contribution :)

AgentB
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I think badges are not eco

I think badges are not eco friendly, as computing resources are needed to calculate them, store them on messages posted on servers, and downloading them -especially on every post - consumes internet bandwidth.

For me, less is more, i don´t get into badge or sig bling, it just clutters the screen, dilutes the content and slows down the time to deliver / read a page.

There are folks who pay a lot for precious bandwidth, and less you post is more value for their money.

For example, the very modest image below is 43K, the larger modest example 103K and each post itself about 1K.

It is not uncommon to have 20 posters in a thread, and a thread read 100 times.

So badges could add many hundred of MB in bandwidth.

I do enjoy images which are relevant and get posted but not the same thing every day and on every post.

Badges are however ego friendly, so i guess somewhere a balance exists but I would rather see us all badge naked, than trying to get E@H fig leaves to pin on the end of our postings.

[AF>Le_Pommier] Jerome_C2005
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Yeah, and there are people

Yeah, and there are people using a command line Linux version to avoid loosing some precious % of CPU power in order to crunch more efficiently :)

And what's the point with all these graphics and mouse stuff when real men use unix shell ? ;)

Crunch by itself is not precisely "eco friendly", you use more electricity when crunching compared to a non crunching computer...

And a computer itself is definitively not an eco friendly item ! Full of contaminating stuff it is.

Skivelitis2
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+1 for badges.

+1 for badges.

PhilTheNet
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+1 for badges

+1 for badges

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