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The new TVTropes app (in beta testing) has resurrected The Badge Shop and moderators can now give out award badges via the app and anyone who uses the app can add any other badge to their account for free! Badges are viewable in all sections of the site on the app (Forums, Queries, Discussions, TLP and Reviews)

The new app should be available to the general public within the next couple of weeks!

NEW BADGE SUBMISSIONS:

  • Users can submit designs for new badges for review via this thread. If approved by the moderators and the admins any moderator can then add that new badge to the badge shop via the Badge Shop Manager.
    • New badges should be of higher quality and not appear pixelated like current older badges, we can now upload higher quality images for them.
    • New badges should have a transparent background so they don't show a different color background when on night vision.

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(Started this thread based on this thread/post.)

For those that are unaware, one of the ideas for bringing in some money from the forum-side of the wiki is to sell "badges" (sort-of like the Herald one) that you can buy and put up as part of your "gingerbread" .

The shop can be found by clicking on the "basket" at the top of any post. There is a 1 USD -> 1Þ exchange rate.

Each person who buys a badge will also be able to customize the hover text that people see for their particular badges. (Note: Only plain text is usable for a caption. Potholes and other wiki formatting will not work)

There are three slots under the avatar and above the "title" space to display them. You will be able to get to your gallery (where you can chose which ones you want to show and their order) by clicking on these slots.

If you wish to participate in making the badges, they need to be a max of 24x24 pix.

The only things we are completely keeping out of the store are symbols that are generally associated with any religion (the Yin-Yang and such are more known for other reasons), gender/sex/sexual orientation badges, and ones that infringe on copyrights. If you see things that you think do infringe, you probably don't have to worry about it. Those are images that don't match their originals (the heart container), are free-to-use, or the original copyright owner has lost their privilege to go after the "offending" images by not going after them in the past.

Please use this thread for everything badge-related.

The rest of this post is taken up by badge ideas, links to badges people have made, and default text ideas. NOTE: The list has not been updated in quite a while (and will probably never be) now that badge ideas/submissions appear naturally in the thread and go strait into the shop.


Mod-given

Purchased for own use

Other ideas

Edited by kory on Feb 10th 2025 at 11:26:30 AM

Doryna Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#2501: Jul 31st 2012 at 2:32:53 PM

What kind of mustache? Handlebar? Walrus? Groucho? Ironic hipster mustache? Hitl...okay, probably not that one.

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#2502: Jul 31st 2012 at 5:11:15 PM

I knew someone was going to say that.

Lock Space Wizard from Germany Since: Sep, 2010
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#2503: Jul 31st 2012 at 5:29:19 PM

Hitl...okay, probably not that one.
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Artemis92 Cogito Gratia Cogitan from contemplation Since: Dec, 2009
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#2505: Aug 1st 2012 at 1:17:08 AM

First things first. If we have eye badges, should each one be the regular price, or should it be a two-for-one thing, or what?

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32_Footsteps Think of the mooks! from Just north of Arkham Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
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#2506: Aug 1st 2012 at 7:18:55 AM

Meh, a mustache without a beard is half-assing your facial hair. tongue

Of course, I'm a bit prejudiced, seeing as I fully embrace my wooly mammoth ancestry and grow out a full beard. Not as thick as I'd want, but not for lack of trying.

There is a whole suite of facial hair we could do... Evil Goatee, pencil-thin mustache (for the John Waters look), the van dyke, the soul patch (which I want to rename "the substache," because I hate the name "soul patch"), the Grizzly Adams... if we want to cater to the face fuzz crowd, we have lots we could do.

edited 1st Aug '12 7:19:40 AM by 32_Footsteps

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#2507: Aug 1st 2012 at 8:24:39 AM

Hey, could we possibly do a series of cheaper badges?

I've seen a lot of people making little messages with their badges, like tri-wielding swords, or whatever, and if there were some simple unicode symbol badges, like =, +, -, !, and stuff, that would be cool. I don't think you could charge full price for something so simple though.

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#2508: Aug 1st 2012 at 9:20:39 AM

Well, I think the $1.25 for most badges is fairly cheap as-is. And buying tropies in smaller quantities isn't all that feasible; there comes a certain point where Paypal fees make the transaction worthless. And I don't think we're equipped at all to handle microtransactions.

Not saying it couldn't be done, of course. But there are logistic issues behind having cheaper badges that need to be addressed.

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Jimmmyman10 cannot into space from polan Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
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#2509: Aug 1st 2012 at 10:34:51 AM

I really only would suggest it for monochromatic, simple symbol badges.

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JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#2510: Aug 1st 2012 at 11:26:38 AM

The badge shop should just have a whole "mustache" subsection.

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rodneyAnonymous Sophisticated as Hell from empty space Since: Aug, 2010
#2511: Aug 1st 2012 at 3:09:45 PM

"First things first."

What? I think that decision has already been made. It is just two regular badges. (In the eye example, one of them is already in the shop, I was just making an opposite. By "designed to be two" I meant "...to begin with".)

Here is a right and left handlebar moustache, and what they'd look like together:

edited 1st Aug '12 3:19:53 PM by rodneyAnonymous

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#2512: Aug 15th 2012 at 1:30:49 PM

I understand Shima's been busy all summer so he can't really upload the badges... Is it possible to give another mod some authority over the badge shop? Because we haven't had any new badges in weeks.

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#2513: Aug 15th 2012 at 1:49:16 PM

Shima's been busy all summer so he...

Shima is a she, actually.

edited 15th Aug '12 1:49:24 PM by BestOf

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#2515: Aug 15th 2012 at 2:09:59 PM

And now you know!

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#2516: Aug 16th 2012 at 7:11:28 AM

But seriously, did we ever come to a conclusion on those space badges? I'd love to have a few of those, but I lack the artistic knowhow to make them.

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Doryna Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#2517: Aug 18th 2012 at 8:47:21 PM

A set of gears for the steampunk/gearheads/appreciators of fine engineering and so on.

I've also got the same in gold or silver; the gold ones look okay, but not as good as the copper, and I'm not happy with the silver since it's too pale for the light background. If there's interest, I'll keep tinkering with them.

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#2519: Aug 19th 2012 at 8:36:38 AM

[up][up] I like it, too!

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#2520: Aug 20th 2012 at 6:56:27 AM

Those are really sweet-looking gears. The copper/brass look is classic to me; if you were to do other colors, I'd go will a duller grey/silver - gears seldom stay shiny, after all.

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#2521: Aug 20th 2012 at 6:36:48 PM

shima has just returned from the end of con season and shall be uploading things as soon as I get a chance to catch my breath.

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True colors
#2523: Aug 29th 2012 at 10:25:54 AM

Sorry for double posting but is there any way to refund Tropie points?

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FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#2524: Aug 29th 2012 at 11:57:52 AM

Nope

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Telcontar In uffish thought from England Since: Feb, 2012
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#2525: Sep 25th 2012 at 6:22:55 AM

Are the Soooper-sekret sooorprise plans for promoting the badges still a super-secret surprise? As in, have they been further considered/implemented and are they going to be revealed at some point?

That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.

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