Suggestion: Badges

[nintendodork]

I got the idea from NintendoAge.  Has anyone thought about this before?  I just thought it would be sort of cool.  We obviously wouldn't have as many as NA, but we could have ones like Writers, Staff, etc.

[L___E___T]

I like the shoryuken.com approach.  They use galaga medals.  Ironically, it would be more relevant here even if we straight up copied it

They also have subscriptions which is a bit different.  Luckily this site doesn't have scrawls of google ads or flash banners over it (I use ABP) so we don't have any real incentive to pay towards our time here.  I know I'd support the site any real way I can.  I'm here fo' life y'all.

[UglyJoe]

There are probably SMF mods available that can add this functionality.  However, I'm not sure how many badges we'd really have.  I mean, there's admins, mods, staff, and regular users.  That's it, really. 

[manuel]

And maybe a medal for "Annoying Kids"?   

[nintendodork]

Totally.   I mean, these would all be rather pointless, but they'd be fun nonetheless.  We could have things such as being a member on the forum for over a year, two years, etc.  Members over 30 () Members under 18, I dunno.

[JC]

That's what custom titles are for.

[NintendoKing]

It would be cool to have badges for people whom own clones, original Famicoms, AV Famicoms and Twin Famicoms.
That would be very neat, I think.

[MS-DOS4]

^

Indeed. I remember there being a collection of pixel art badges of every retro game system including handhelds somewhere... I can't seem to find it but those would make nice badges. I think it was made by a Japanese guy, if that helps hunt down this collection.

Maybe I could help make badges for clones     Way too many clones though...  Maybe just a text list you can add too on your profile page?

[UglyJoe]

And how would we know which users have which consoles?  The Honor Policy kinda falls apart when you have stupid newbies who would say they have every Nintendo console ever made just to show off their badges.

[MS-DOS4]

well we could have photographic proof, but that's just too much effort for some people. At the end of the day, nobody will really care if you have every system, and it's not like we really attract those types of people anyway.

It's just a fun thing to have.

[NintendoKing]

well we could have photographic proof, but that's just too much effort for some people. At the end of the day, nobody will really care if you have every system, and it's not like we really attract those types of people anyway.

It's just a fun thing to have.

A picture of yourself holding said console, or a photo with a piece of paper with your username written on it placed on top the console. Easy as that, I think.

[MS-DOS4]

Basically.

[NintendoKing]

Basically.

I  would love to have a Badge/s like that, also:

A badge for owning at least one boxed game and or complete boxed game.
A badge for a completed set of pulse-line cartridges.
A badge for owning a holy grail.
A badge for owning a game with Mario hacked into it.
A badge for owning a expansion port controller.
A badge for owning a complete in box official Famicom, AV Famicom or Twin Famicom.
A badge for owning a Famicom Disk system Disk.
A badge for owning a Famicom Disk System, (also would include Twin Famicom's disk system).

Those are the badges, I can think of right off my head.

[nintendodork]

/\ I like those ideas.

[manuel]

If you ask me: definitely.