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.
(Started this thread based on this thread/post.
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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
- wiki visual artist
: True Art is Taxonomical
- en-lightener
- Do a great deal of grunt work in the Wiki
- re-railing OTC threads : Rerailway Conductor
Purchased for own use
- Hey! I hang out in _____ forum! (might use the wiki images—a book for Lit—for these)
- Video Games : Wii would like to trope. | Don't throw this into the screen—again. | Got to love those pixelated llamas.
- Lit : Has a big enough book that it's a certified weapon. | An avid bookworm that had barrowed into the forum's soil. | Who needs pictures when you have paper/text? | Hardcover or paperback? The hardest choice since paper and plastic—although it's definitely paper.
- Amime/manga
- Tabletop games
- a d20
: d20 | The Troll swings at you with the stolen banhammer roll for a saving throw. | Game masters always keep a set of dice handy. | For the roleplayer who like a little...randomness.
- 6 more options for a d20
- The "20" on a d20
| You rolled a critical! Unfortunately, that could be a bad thing...
- a d20
- Wiki Talk
- IP : Can choose the right pics for a trope page easily.
- TRS
- a TRS hard hat
: Anarchitect : Trope Repair Crew
- a TRS hard hat
- Western Animation
- Webcomics
- Visual Novels
- Music : (Lady Gaga) Snap, snap, trope that hit on the radio! | (Carefull With That Ax) Careful with that dubstep!
- Live Action TV
- Live Action Film
- Comics
- Visual Arts
- Radio
- Seasonal/holiday
- Spring
- Summer
- Fall
- Halloween
- Winter
- Christmas
- Easter
- 4th of July
- "My country's birthday"
- Affiliations
- the anti-discrimination "rainbow"
| One of many QUILTBAGS.
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7 religious symbols (different religions)Vetoed - US armed forces (Army, USMC, USAF, and USN)
These do not infringe on copyright... Right?
- US Army
- US Marine Core
- US Armed Forces
- US Navy
- the anti-discrimination "rainbow"
- Other (interest and personality related come to mind)
- Ask me for help
| Better than your average help desk.
- Celebration
- References
-
Poke-ball(copyrighted) - Pynchon "bugle"
| We Await Silent Trystero's Empire!
- An Aleph null
(math term, link to
The Other Wiki)
- Slendy's Operator symbol
from The Slender Man Mythos
- Eye of Providence
as used in the US
- Script/writing
from The Lord of the Rings
- A Companion Cube
| Remains safely operational up to 4000 degrees Kelvin. | Will never threaten to stab you.
- A Cthulhu-head
- a Wug
from an English-speaking linguistics test
)
- EU
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- sports' balls (including pool balls)
- All 15 pool balls
- Baseball ball
- Basketball ball
- Weapons
- Tv Tropes references ]]
- Gems (originally based on "chaos gems")
- Anamals
- Random : a pair of rose-colored glasses : a boat/ship]]
- skull and cross bones
- Doomsday clock
- The power-button symbol
- A Fleur-de-lis
(The Other Wiki link
)
- a fire extinguisher
| No need to call 911! | Useful for extinguishing flame wars—or not.
- Omega
- Horseshoe (flipped omega)
- skull and cross bones
- Ask me for help
- Stuff that was "gift only"
- Tropers who are great at making puns
- a badge(r)
| Very punny, indeed.
Other ideas
Profile Badges that direct others to certain other accounts"have to reserve what happens by clicking a badge. So, no badges that link elsewhere."
- Possible "double" badge for Heralds
- Custom badges
Edited by kory on Feb 10th 2025 at 11:26:30 AM
When it was just England and Scotland, the Scots actually made their own version with the cross of St Andrew on top, rather than that of St George, since they considered him more important.
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That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.On my father's side of the family, I'm majorly of Irish and Welsh descent. I'm always particular as to which part of the British Commonwealth I mean.
That said, I did marry someone whose father is English...
Oh, right, badges, those.
Hmm... would a breastplate (no, not that kind) be good? Folks like armor almost as much as they like swords. A cool helmet or two (like a full faceplate, both European and Japanese style) also might be popular.
Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.How about gender avatars? Male and female. Would help sort out the Pronoun Trouble here on the fora.
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.Eh, I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm not going to blow two and a half tropies, not to mention one of my three badge slots (especially when I already have four I want to display) just to notify folks about my genitals. I think it'd be more productive to allow a male/female/other/none symbol appear just to the right of the screen name on the forums - you'd want to ask Eddie about it.
Personally, while I'm unabashedly male, I like seeing just how often people think I'm female online when I don't even try the Guy In Real Life routine (it happens way more often than you first would think). So I won't really bother to identify myself, even if given the chance to do so on the forum.
Besides, I do make it clear on my troper page.
Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.Bump.
I really, really should get back on my laptop soon. I've got at least half a dozen badge ideas, and... I guess I'd at least like to see how they turn out before Shima or somebody does them first. :/
Ponders too much; thinks too little. Currently goes by Knowlessman.I know there is already a music badge, but I don't think a piano keys badge would necessarily be a bad thing. I made a couple really easily, and if either one of them is good, tell me which one is better.
The first one is better; it's nice to have the key distinctions be lighter than the image border.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.The second one is there so that the keys would all be the same width, just so you know.
EDIT: How's this one look?
edited 13th Jun '12 12:24:40 PM by FinalStarman
I'm not crazy, I just don't give a darn!"There is no one key to great music. There are 88."
EDIT: I kind of like the second look the best, and the first is much better than the third.
edited 13th Jun '12 12:26:38 PM by 32_Footsteps
Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.I want to say, "Zoom out and put more keys in there," on account of it looking kinda like a box with two popsicles in it, but that would mean that most of the badge is negative space, which would look weird. :/ D'you think you could zoom out a little bit, keep the keys on the bottom, and put a brown or black bar over them, like the top of a piano/keyboard?
Naturally, I'm ninja'd by, like, five people.
edited 13th Jun '12 12:28:16 PM by Artemis92
Ponders too much; thinks too little. Currently goes by Knowlessman.Another possibility would be to make thinner keys to get more on there. I know it would lead to fridge logic as to what spider was actually using said keyboard, but it would fit more keys on there.
Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.I'm afraid that one isn't very clear. What about four white keys and 3 black — from F to B?
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.That looks good. To make it better, try adding a border at the top and bottom, in keeping with the current side ones. As the image ˙as vertical lines, it seems "stretched" from top to bottom when it's not, so that would help limit the image. Also to counteract that, you could shave a pixel off the bottom like you have on the side — 23x23 won't be noticed unless a mod wears it in a pink post.
I'm afraid all of those strike me as having too much black on top. The image is dominated by it. Key-wise, I prefer the first and second to the third, as that one doesn't ever exist on a piano keyboard. Gray/black edge lines on the second/first (respectively) would be good
edited 13th Jun '12 12:56:20 PM by Telcontar
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.@Confidant: What if you tried adding a bar? A short one.
Ponders too much; thinks too little. Currently goes by Knowlessman.Confi's version is my favourite so far, too. (Starman's last one is almost as good but the black space is kind of annoying and it bugs me that the edge keys aren't outlined... even though if they were it would look just as strange.)
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Oh - I figured you meant the Union Jack, since it is, in fact, three times as holy. :P
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