Badges

Badges in Discourse reinforce positive user behaviour and facilitates “learning by doing”. It is a central part of Discourse’s gamification features.

Receiving Badges

There are two ways to receive a badge:

Manually granted by an administrative user
Automatically granted by the system

Furthermore, all badges have some optional properties.

Allow badge to be used as a title
Can be granted multiple times
Show badge on the public badges page
Show post granting badge on badge page

Creating Badges

Manual and automatic badges are created the same way, via the admin panel. What sets them apart is how they’re triggered.

Manual Badges

A badge can only be granted by an administrative user. See how to manually grant a badge.

Automatic Badges

Automatic badges are granted by special triggers. Discourse comes with a lot of default badges out of the box, but administrative users can also create custom ones. At their most basic, automatic badges are simple “kudos!” for users who are just starting out.

For example:

Added a link
Received a like.

Certain badges also coincide with new trust levels. When you’ve attained a new trust level, you’ll receive a corresponding badge to notify you of the bump-up.

Trust Level 1 –> Basic
Trust Level 2 –> Member
Trust Level 3 –> Regular
Trust Level 4 –> Leader

Want to create your own automatic badge? Go read how to trigger custom badge queries.

Badge Types - WIP

Bronze/Silver/Gold *What do they actually mean? Is it strictly a categorisation, or are there points attached to them?

Receiving Badges

Creating Badges

Manual Badges

Automatic Badges

Badge Types - WIP

Further Reading