Ok, Scouts, I know you’re all eager to earn your badges. Well, I’m here to tell you that some badges are easy to get, and others? Well, you could grow a seed into a specimen bonsai before you earn the last of these badges. The list of badges with a very brief description is HERE.. For more detailed information, I’ve hot-linked the names you see below. Good luck, Scouts!
Getting Started Badges
Autobiographer: Easy as falling off a chair
Certified: A little work, but you have to read your inbox message from Discobot to begin
Editor: So easy to learn, you can stumble on this one
First Emoji: I stumbled on this one
First Flag: First, you need to find a post to flag. Not easy. Most of us are fine upstanding subscribers. I happened to find found a post which consisted of one broken link. I flagged it. The post was removed. I didn’t get the badge. Going to take more than a broken link to get this one.
First Like: Close your eyes and just start clicking.
First Link: You have to want this badge to earn it.
First Mention: Another “So I see you’ve been reading the badges page” badge.
First Onebox: Another I stumbled upon.
First Quote: You just need to be the type of person who quotes other people.
First Reply By Email: You can’t hang around in the forum all day like I do. Wait for your phone to tell you you got an email from the forum. Accidentally stumble upon the badge.
First Share: Start evangelizing for the forum on other sites like Facebook.
New User of the Month: If you don’t get this, you’ll never get this one. You had one chance, Scout.
Read Guidelines: Check your inbox.
Reader: On a busier forum, people would be stumbling on this everywhere. As it stands, we need to wait for the “Live Stream Ideas” thread to get just a few more replies.
Licensed: Have you TRIED reading your messages? @discobot told you what to do once you became Certified.
Community Badges
Appreciated: Be nice. Get busy.
Enthusiast: Put the Mirai Forum app on your phone, read your phone on the toilet every morning.
Nice Share: You need to go find things that are interesting out there. This can be earned multiple times.
Out of Love: You need to really want this one and just get clicking. We all know how bad you want this badge.
Promoter: “I think you’ll be interested in my new index of links thread. Just a second… You’ve been invited!” That easy, or so I thought. Still waiting.
Thank You: Be cool, act cool.
Welcome: Say something nice.
Aficionado: Make sure not to delete that app on your phone.
Anniversary: Say hi, once every year. Just say hi. Keep doing that and you’ll keep earning this.
Campaigner: Invite three people who become basic users. Wait… that’s where we all start. It only lets us invite Mirai forum users but if you’re a user you’re already basic. I do not think this works the way I think it works.
Gives Back: Get busy. Stick around. Be involved. Be warned: If you get 100 like on one post, it’s still only one post.
Good Share: I personally have no chance unless EVERYONE does the challenges in “The Bonsai Below Me.”
Higher Love: Not only are you trying hard for badges, you’re starting to annoy people.
Respected: Stick around for a while. Get involved. Stick around a little longer… longer… and a wee bit longer … you’ll get it.
Admired: You think I’m posting heavy now? Just you wait, Scouts.
Champion: Now how am I going to invite people who aren’t on the site. Scouts, your goal of 100 completion is in grave danger.
Crazy in Love: You’ve gone from annoying people to an unnatural relationship your computer. There may be an intervention.
Devotee: That app you installed? Never ever put your phone down. Shower with it if you have to.
Empathetic: One that many people will earn. Some faster than others. Is it a coincidence that if you get Crazy in Love, you’re already half way there for Empathetic?
Great Share: Mirai is either going to have to get very popular, or I’m going to have to be here a while.
Posting Badges
Nice Reply: Post something nice in a thread that is visited often, but with very few comments. If it’s hard to find, it’s hard to like.
Nice Topic: Post a nice topic. Do I have to spell all this out for you?
Popular Link: Cruise the Internet looking for something, someone popular.
Good Reply: That well-visited thread you used? There really can’t be many comments at all.
Good Topic: Your topic better be good.
Hot Link: It better be real good.
Famous Link: Like damned good.
Great Reply: You might have to pay for subscriptions for your friends.
Great Topic: Compared to the other gold-medal badges, this one seems to be a little light. You still need to put in a lot of work and hope for a lot of luck.
Trust Level Badges
Basic: Did you even know there’s a forum at Mirai? The first taste badge is free.
Member: “Do you have to leave so soon? Stay just a few minutes more. They’re handing out Member badges!”
Regular: You’ve likely met one of the moderators in person or you’ve been cozying up to them for a good long while.
Leader: No. You’re not getting this one. Neither am I.
