Originally Posted by
plunet
Already been answered up thread. No.
You can deselect any user managed badges in your profile but some are automagic. Just in the same way you can't decline likes that others on the forum bestow on your contributions. Best to go with the flow, it's the modern way of the world, like it or not.
well it's incredibly rude for admins to implement some sort of feature that just makes a bunch of busywork for me with zero opt-in, why would I even care how many countries some rando poster says he's been to