Badges

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Badges are small graphics awarded to users that compete in competitions or help out the site in some way. However, they originally had a much different purpose.

History

Back during the EZBoard (or vBulletin) era, badges were conceived. They were originally just jokes created by Kritter, for a bit of humour on the boards, and nobody actually took them to heart; they were the Whiner, Complainer, Mr. Serious, Flamer, Stupidity and Annoyance badges. Once this caught on, other users decided to make their own badges for various things, for example being a Soveryhappy fan, or Draco's Ass of MFGG badge, to the point where users had whole armada's of badges to give out, people had dozens in their sigs at a time, and most of which weren't really useful at all.

After a while, users started creating more useful badges, such as winners of the Sprite Competitions. Some time later, when MFGG transferred to an Invision board, Klobber and Retriever II decided to make badges that promote these positive things, and have them be in the user's profiles. Badges were created using graphics from Paper Mario and awarded for many things.

Badge List

  • Happyheart.gif Happy Heart (suspension free and active poster for 3 months)
  • Superhappyheart.gif Super Happy Heart (suspension free and active poster for 12 months)
  • File:BigHelp.gif Big Help (assisting the website or forums in a large way)
  • Reviewer.gif Super Reviewer (gives many well-written reviews on the main site)
  • SuperSubmission.gif Super Submitter (same as Super Reviewer, but for site submissions)
  • Admin.gif Admin Badge (used to label Admins)
  • Moderator.gif Moderator Badge (used to label Moderators)
  • Host.gif Host Badge (used to label site hosts)
  • SiteStaff.gif Site Staff Badge (used to label site staff)
  • Badgemeister.gif Badgemeister Badge (used to label a Badge Mod)
  • Pppmod.gif PPP Moderator Badge (used to label a Pointless Post Palace Mod, now used to label a Casual Conversation Castle Mod)
  • Shell.gif Operation Clam Participant (used to label the dev team of Operation CLAM (MFGG 2.0))
  • Award04.gif Award05.gif Award06.gif Award07.gif MFGG Awards Winner (2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007)
  • Skull Badge (obsolete) was used to label banned users, replaced with Reporter Badge as shown
  • SkullBadge.gif Reporter Badge (no name) (used to label those that properly use the Report Post function) Originally only held by Klobber, then by Retriever II, now nobody currently has this badge in possession.)
  • KFCBadge.gif KFC Badge (joke badge, unattainable.)
  • Present.gif Secret Santa Badge (Available only to Santa at the moment, although it will be handed out to people participating in MFGGecret Santa.)
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Sprite Competition Badges -- First Place, Runner-Up (Second Place), and Top Five. Awarded after completion of sprite competitions.

Drawing Competition Badges -- First Place, Runner-Up (Second Place), and Top Five. Awarded after completion of drawing competitions.

Minigame Competition Badges -- First Place, Runner-Up (Second Place), and third place. Awarded after completion of Mini-game competitions.

See also