Originally Posted by gaobest (Post 36658251)

Can we have badges for number of likes and quotes?

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Originally Posted by jrl767 (Post 36665564)

.... (e.g., “I’ve issued 2306 Likes and quoted 1192 other posts”)

Originally Posted by friedablass (Post 36665688)

Or conversely, "I've received xxxx number of likes and been quoted xxxx number of times" which is what I thought was being asked for and agree that it's unnecessary and irrelevant (just as it's been until now).

Originally Posted by jrl767 (Post 36665564)

agreed … this is a *TRAVEL* community, not an influencer competition

FT automatically tracks post count, and that provides evidence of online participation

I guess I’m just a curmudgeon, but I don’t understand why it’s necessary to seek additional validation (e.g., “I’ve issued 2306 Likes and quoted 1192 other posts”)

Originally Posted by corky (Post 36665014)

Huh? What is the point of that? I get # of countries, etc but that sounds like it will just add to the clutter.

Originally Posted by corky (Post 36665787)

Too much high school popularity contest plus would just encourage non stop liking of posts and some people already abuse it.

Originally Posted by jrl767 (Post 36665564)

agreed … this is a *TRAVEL* community, not an influencer competition

FT automatically tracks post count, and that provides evidence of online participation

I guess I’m just a curmudgeon, but I don’t understand why it’s necessary to seek additional validation (e.g., “I’ve issued 2306 Likes and quoted 1192 other posts”)

Originally Posted by Rubecula (Post 36675832)

Since the launch of the badges my time on Flyertalk has moved from 5 to 10 years but the 10 year badge is still greyed out.

Originally Posted by supine (Post 36675847)

​​​​​​ The join date in your profile suggests October next year would be your ten year anniversary?

Originally Posted by DenverBrian (Post 36672211)

Gen Y/Z/Alpha doesn't get good recognition from parents or other adults in 2024, so they rely on likes, followers, quotes, reposts, etc. to validate their existence.

Originally Posted by IBJoel (Post 36680932)

Y'know what's funny is that these were first rolled out on sites dominated by Boomers and Gen X to positive reception

Originally Posted by IBJoel (Post 36568929)

How many free nights you earned this year. I will admit that this was the most difficult badge to gauge. No shade to our anonymous research group, but I would have liked more input on this category specifically. I saw a record of 200 nights earned in a year, which I found pretty insane, so I halved it.

See above for comments for countries and FT profile age but, essentially, while I recognize there are 200 countries (give or take), visiting even 10 is an extremely privileged position to be in. Less than 5% of the developed world has travelled to more than 30 countries. BUT a 100 countries badge will be coming.