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How to disable badges?
Newby here. In the first 5 minutes I earned a 'badge' for about each mouse click, with a related red dot over the bell icon on top, wasting my time. Is there a way to disable this childish nudging? A...
WillemYKW , I asked same question 8.5 years ago Is it a way to switch off pop-up badge received notifications? | Microsoft Community Hub . But after receiving my first few badges which I guess takes, depends on activity, about a month, I totally forgot about them. On practice after that it will be one badge per year, nothing critical.
I'm not sure if option to disable badges notification was in previous release as discussed How to stop receiving messages and emails for ranks and badges? | Microsoft Community Hub . Not in current one. But on practice the rule is - more activities less budges you have.
Allen
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Community ManagerWelcome to the Microsoft Tech Community WillemYKW and thank you for posting.
The direct answer to your question is no, everyone gets badges for engagement. This topic on badging has come up a few times and to be honest its split evenly between folks who like it and want it and those who don't. The badges you earn significantly decrease the longer you spend in the community, many users get to a point where the only badge they earn is their yearly anniversary badge.
I think what I would say to you directly is we are currently evaluating how we could better leverage the badging system in the new Aurora UI and we will launch a new badging system later. In the mean-time I hope you will continue to participate in the community and perhaps even offer insights on any badges you might like to see via our community ideas board.
All the best
Allen
