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Huge +1 to this idea. I also think having, say, badges that can be gifted for people who do lots of TRS, namespace, or other wick cleaning work, or who otherwise consistently contribute to the site in a meaningful way, could be a way to potentially incentivize casual (forum-using) tropers to be more involved in the currently chronically understaffed workshop forums. Even if it doesn't, I think it's definitely at least worth a shot. 
Interesting, i was wondering what those badges were in the forums lol. So there's no way to get these badges now, you can just see the ones that already exist?
I wonder why it was removed. If you guys think this will help encourage users to participate then i can look into it and add it to the pile. :D
Edited by kory Now monitoring Wishlist and Bugs
I think it's because the Badge Shop is defunct, so the badges in general are down and nobody bothered to un-tie the functionality.
Mods can make tropes who "know their stuff" at certain forums stand out and also promote work that way.
Edited by Amonimus TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
In the process of doing this now. Couldn't find any of the "gift" code left so i'm converting the badge shop into that functionality.
Mods-only will be able to add whatever badges to the cart then enter a tropers name at the end to gift them for hard work on the site. Maybe add this ability to the Engineering Role
list of abilities? Not sure how often badges would be given out, i know a lot of users do a lot of work on the site.
For that question the Engineer role probably needs to exist first (in case the site operates on "is mod?" logic instead of "user's role allows this?", this may need more work), and we also need to find a full list of features regular users don't have access to but mods do, to discuss which functions the Engineer can take as well.
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
Well, for engineer stuff, that's still being worked out privately (I'll see about making a post to the linked query later though) so I don't think we need to worry about that in regards to badges right now. It's not really the work we want engineers for and I think it should be mods giving out the awards in any cases
Edited by MacronNotes Macron's notes
Related question, and this one's for the mods—when this gets implemented, should we create a thread for designing badges, similar to the namespace icon one? I had an idea for a Projects mod-rewardable badge for good work in Long- and Short-Term Projects, similar to the TRS one, and I wanted to pitch it when the badge shop comes back. Would that be a good idea?
Edited by themayorofsimpleton TRS Queue | Works That Require Cleanup Of Complaining | Troper Wall
We do have this old thread on Wiki Talk. So, it depends on whether you wanna bump that one or start a new thread.
^ We can probably use that thread.
TRS Queue | Works That Require Cleanup Of Complaining | Troper Wall
Way back when The Badge Shop was active, mods and users used to be able to gift badges to other users (this was the icon
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to users
As for where the button should go... I believe it was next to the "add description" and "add badge to profile" options on badges you own in your badge collection. reference pic
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Edited by MacronNotes