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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

videogmer314 from that one place Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Noaqiyeum we must dissent (it/they) from across the gulf of space (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
Culex3 They think me mad Since: Jan, 2012
They think me mad
#1278: May 19th 2012 at 10:00:18 AM

Soccer badges but no Am. Football? That's disappointing.

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Noaqiyeum we must dissent (it/they) from across the gulf of space (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
we must dissent (it/they)
#1279: May 19th 2012 at 10:01:49 AM

Football badges but no American Football? That's gratifying.
Fix'd. :P

[down]...FINGORE TIME

edited 19th May '12 10:04:49 AM by Noaqiyeum

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FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#1280: May 19th 2012 at 10:03:34 AM

You should have a look at places like this fro ideas: http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/gallery2/?./Symbols/aem-warning_symbols

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Culex3 They think me mad Since: Jan, 2012
They think me mad
#1281: May 19th 2012 at 10:07:12 AM

[up][up] It's a community with a pretty high amount of Americans, and the NFL thread is the largest sports thread in OTC, just seems odd to have Soccer but leave out Am-Football.

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Noaqiyeum we must dissent (it/they) from across the gulf of space (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
Lemurian from Touhou fanboy attic Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Buried in snow, waiting for spring
#1283: May 19th 2012 at 10:20:08 AM

@Fast Eddie: Oooh, those look much better than the ones I found on Wikipedia.

BRB, running them through resize.

edited 19th May '12 10:27:28 AM by Lemurian

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Spirit Pretty flower from America Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Hooked on a feeling
Pretty flower
#1284: May 19th 2012 at 10:23:15 AM

Oh, the badge shop is now open. Sweet.

So I'm guessing that the first one ain't free?

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DarkConfidant Since: Aug, 2011
#1285: May 19th 2012 at 10:34:54 AM

This one is sort of your call (obviously, everything's your call, but I'm just throwing this one out there), Fast One, but what is your stance on having a screen for people to view another troper's collection, much as one can do with avatar collections?

Lemurian from Touhou fanboy attic Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Buried in snow, waiting for spring
#1286: May 19th 2012 at 10:50:24 AM

More warning-badges to go with these. Not sure which of the radioactive/electric ones is best.

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videogmer314 from that one place Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
#1287: May 19th 2012 at 10:53:42 AM

Can I please have more than one person's feedback on this?

EarlOfSandvich Since: Jun, 2011
#1288: May 19th 2012 at 10:55:32 AM

Hmm... there seems to be some sort of glitch preventing me from buying a fourth badge...

I now go by Graf von Tirol.
FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#1289: May 19th 2012 at 11:25:07 AM

What does it do?

Try it now. It wasn't letting you spend your Þ balance down to exactly zero.

edited 19th May '12 11:34:15 AM by FastEddie

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EarlOfSandvich Since: Jun, 2011
#1290: May 19th 2012 at 11:38:13 AM

Ah! Thanks! It works now.

I now go by Graf von Tirol.
Elbruno Mummy Woomy from Chile: Not As Dry As Space! Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Mummy Woomy
#1291: May 19th 2012 at 11:47:17 AM

@videogmer: I like the second version best.

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videogmer314 from that one place Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
#1292: May 19th 2012 at 11:59:44 AM

I re-saved them with white backgrounds instead of transparency so that Firefox users won't have to copy+paste them into a different program to properly see them.

edited 19th May '12 11:59:59 AM by videogmer314

DarkConfidant Since: Aug, 2011
#1293: May 19th 2012 at 12:12:46 PM

@Fast One: That too would explain the issue I was having.

Any thoughts on my above proposal from a few posts up about having badge galleries publicly visible as avatar galleries are?

FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#1294: May 19th 2012 at 12:28:23 PM

Is that what people want? Some may not.

Goal: Clear, Concise and Witty
DarkConfidant Since: Aug, 2011
#1295: May 19th 2012 at 12:30:22 PM

I'm merely throwing the idea out there. If it's not too much trouble, it may be possible to make it such that some subset of ones collection is visible to the public.

I know I've seen something similar on another site I'm on.

In any case, I merely want to present the idea to you and to the people, and we can work something out at that point.

Lock Space Wizard from Germany Since: Sep, 2010
Space Wizard
#1296: May 19th 2012 at 12:48:33 PM

Some may not.
I fail to see the problem, it seems very reasonably to me.

Programming and surgery have a lot of things in common: Don't start removing colons until you know what you're doing.
Noaqiyeum we must dissent (it/they) from across the gulf of space (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
videogmer314 from that one place Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
#1298: May 19th 2012 at 1:11:06 PM

I touched up the red gem as well; here's the first and second styles.

Artemis92 Cogito Gratia Cogitan from contemplation Since: Dec, 2009
Cogito Gratia Cogitan
#1299: May 19th 2012 at 1:31:40 PM

When you click on somebody else's badge, it sends you to your own badge collection. It'd be neat if it sent you to theirs, instead. You could still get to your own collection by clicking your own badges, and there's still the link in the shop.

Also, another person's badge collection could show you what custom text they've attached to the badges; you can't see Alt Text on touchscreens.

Ponders too much; thinks too little. Currently goes by Knowlessman.
Lemurian from Touhou fanboy attic Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Buried in snow, waiting for spring
#1300: May 19th 2012 at 2:23:10 PM

^^ I like sharp edges, so I prefer the first one.

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