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.

History

An example of a badge award given to another member.

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

Founder

Main article: Thunder Dragon

The Founder badge is only handed out to Thunder Dragon, the founder of MFGG.

Webmaster/Tech Admin

Main article: Webmaster

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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 and HylianDev are so far the only members that hold this badge.

Administrator

Main article: Administrator

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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

Main article: Moderator

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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

Main article: Site Staff

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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

Main article: Wiki Sysop

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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.

Retriever II

Main article: Retriever II

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The Retriever II badge is only handed out to Retriever II, the one that hosts the server of MFGG.

User Badges

Big Help

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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

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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. The Super Submitter badge used to be handed out to those that had submitted a lot of high-quality submissions.

Super Reviewer

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The Super Reviewer is handed out to those that have submitted at least twenty five reviews. It used to be handed out to those that had submitted a lot of well-written reviews.

Happy Hearts

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The Happy Heart badges are handed out to those that have at least one hundred posts, and not getting warned for a long time. The first happy heart badge is simply called the Happy Heart, which is handed out to those that haven't been warned for at least two months (used to be three months). The second happy heart badge is called the Super Happy Heart badge, which is handed out to those that haven't been warned for at least six months (used to be one year). The third and last happy heart badge is called the Ultra Happy Heart badge, which is handed out to those haven't been warned for at least two years (used to be five years). If a member that has one of the happy heart badges got warned, he/she will lose his/her happy heart badge.

Wiki Contributor

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The Wiki Contributor badge is handed out to those that contribute to the MFGG Wiki a lot. Members generally get this if they have at least from seven hundred-fifty to one thousand quality edits.

CFP Helper

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The CFP badge is supposed to be handed out to those that have participated at the Community Fangame Project, but it was actually handed out to Chaoxys and Guinea, as they are the only active contributors to Midas Machine (which used to be a Community Fangame Project).

Iso Collab Contributor

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The Iso Collab Contributor badge is handed out to those that have at least submitted a tile for a Isometric Collaboration.

Sprite Competition Badges

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These Sprite Competition badges are handed out to those that have won first place, second place, and third to fifth place respectively in a Sprite Competition.

Minigame Competition Badges

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These Minigame Competition badges are handed out to the winner, runner-up, and third to fifth place respectively in a Minigame Competition.

Music Competition Badges

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These Music Competition badges are awarded to those that have won first place, second place, and third to fifth place respectively in a Music Competition.

Drawing Competition Badges

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These Drawing Competition badges go to those that have won first place, second place, and third to fifth place respectively in a Drawing Competition.

Special Competition Badges

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These Special Competition badges are handed out to those that have won first, second, and third to fifth place respectively in a Special Competition.

Super Competition Badges

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The Super Competition badges get awarded to the winner, runner-up, and third to fifth place respectively in a Super Competition.

NCFC Contributor

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The NCFC Contributor badge is handed out to those that had at least one booth at NCFC.

Secret Santa

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The Secret Santa badge is handed out to those that had participated (and made a gift) at the annual Secret Santa event.

Event Winner

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The Event Winner badge is handed out to the winner(s) of a competitive forum event.

Egg Hunter & Pro Egg Hunter

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The Egg Hunter badge (the green egg) goes to those that had cracked at least one egg in a Easter Egg Hunt event, while the Pro Egg Hunter badge (the orange stars egg) goes to those that had cracked all five eggs in a Easter Egg Hunt event.

Skull & Golden Skull

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The Skull badge and Golden Skull badge gets handed out to the participants and winners respectively in a Halloween event. The Skull badge used to be handed out to banned members.

E3 Bingo Winner

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The E3 Bingo Winner badge is handed out to those that got a "Bingo" at the annual MFGG E3 Bingo.

Game of the Month

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The Game of the Month badge gets awarded to those that had their game picked for Game of the Month.

MFGG Awards

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If one has managed to win at least one category in the annual MFGG Awards, he/she will win the MFGG Awards badge of the respective year (with the first one for MFGG Awards 2004).

Deprecated Badges

Good Citizen

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The Good Citizen badge would be handed out to those that have signed up as elves for the annual Secret Santa event.

Joke Game Contest Winner

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The Joke Game Contest Winner badge would be handed out to the winner of a Joke Game Contest.

Badge Moderator

Main article: Badge Moderator

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The Badge Moderator (previously known as "Badgemeister") badge would be handed to those that are in the now-deprecated group, Badge Moderator. Badge Moderators would be able to hand out badges at that time, but nowdays, Administrators are the only ones that can hand out badges.

Reporter

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The Reporter badge would be handed out to those that have used the report button properly.

Gaming Tournament Badges

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The Gaming Tournament badges would be handed out to the winner (which, the Gaming Tournament Winner badge cannot be displayed), runner-up, and third to fifth place in a Gaming Tournament.

KFC Badge

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The KFC badge would be handed out to those that have retired from being a administrator, before the end of the IPB era. At the phpBB era, only a few members (including jas) had a KFC badge.

Monthly News Helper

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The Monthly News Helper would be handed out to those that have helped the MFGG Monthly News in 2010.

Operation CLAM Participant

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The Operation CLAM Participant would be handed out to those that have helped make the current version of MFGG's main site.