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comment by Isherwood
Isherwood  ·  2417 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: If someone gives you a badge, can you then give it away?

That's fair, but I still think badges as a currency could perform the function you speak of. Just like there's nothing stopping me from badging useless posts, I don't think badges as currency inherently creates bad use





kleinbl00  ·  2417 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So as it is, I earn a badge, I give it to your content, your content has been badged (which is different than having a badge to give) and everyone can see that badged content.

Under your system, I earn a badge, I give it to your content, you give it to something else, and the content I badged is no longer badged.

In order to use the badge the way you want to, you're effectively negating my opinion on your content. You're saying "this is no longer noteworthy because this other thing is more noteworthy."

Isherwood  ·  2417 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Though I am really intrigued by the idea of visualizing social currency now.

Isherwood  ·  2417 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ahhhh, yes. I didn't think through what would happen to the badge.