Badges
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Badges are little pictures that appear below a member's member bar. They are used to motivate contributing members, and honor them with visual tokens that represent their good deeds.
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History
Before Retriever II implemented badges into the forum software after the phpBB version of the forums were introduced, badges were actually used back in the earlier years. For a brief period of time in 2002, a member (currently unknown who) presented the idea of giving out small awards he believed certain members should receive. Eventually this idea grew to other members who performed the same activity, upon being grateful for receiving a textual award from this member. As it continued branching out to other members, it turned into actual award medals given out to members. The medals somehow reformed into being named "badges," and not long after, members were creating image badges for each other, which could then be put into their signatures for others to see. It's not known if the idea for badges on the forum software years later was sparked by this or not.
Staff Badges
Webmaster/Tech Admin
The Webmaster (also known as Tech Admin) badge is handed out to those that are in the Webmaster group. Webmasters are those that have the role of managing the main site, forums, and wiki at the highest tech levels. Techokami is so far the only member that holds this badge.
Administrator
The Administrator (or Admin for short) badge is handed out to those that are in the Administrator group. Administrators have the power to move topics, lock topics, edit posts, give warnings and suspend members, and more.
Moderator
The Moderator (also known as Global Moderator) badge is handed out to those that are in the Global Moderator group. Moderators have more power than regular members as they can do stuff like moving topics, deleting a topic, and more. They may not have as much power as Administrators, but they do hold enough responsibility in keeping the forums as stable as possible.
Site Staff
The Site Staff badge is handed out to those that are in the Site Staff group. The Site Staff are those that works at the main site, and have the power of Quality Control and Comment Moderator.
Wiki Sysop
The Wiki Sysop (also known as Wiki System Operator) badge is handed out to those that are in the Wiki Sysop group. Wiki Sysops are the administrators of the MFGG Wiki.
User Badges
Big Help
The Big Help badge is handed out to those that made a special contribution to either the main site or the message boards. An example is that VinnyVideo got his Big Help badge for planning out the events for MFGG's 10th anniversary.
Submitter Badges
The Submitter Badges are handed out only to those that have a main site account, and linked them with their forum account. If one has submitted his/her first submission, the first submitter badge is handed out to him/her. Their current submitter badge will get replaced by the next one, once they get ten more submissions. The last submitter badge is the Super Submitter, which is handed out to those that have at least one hundred submissions.
