These badges will be cool and all, but they're pretty far down on the list of things I'd like to see implemented here.
True, but this thread was opened by theymos, which requires a follow up.
It's rare that theymos actually commits a deadline or time-frame to such things and this is probably why. I've asked him a couple of times over the years for a rough estimate of when the forum will be ready and never received a response. I would still like to know if it's something that will or won't be out this year, or even a 'maybe' or 'no' to next year, but again, he'd probably rather just not commit to saying something if he can help it because people will just hold him to it if that time passes. Would be nice to get a rough percentage of how finished it is from him though.
Still, I would much rather him spend his time on either coding the forum or implementing some of the other things that will benefit this forum and make it a better place rather than just adding some superficial badges.
I would much rather more mods be added
That would be good indeed! I've said before that I wouldn't mind having my own nuke button, but so far theymos only asked me to be a Mod
by mistake.
*insert troll smiley*
How did he ask you by mistake? The forum could do with some extra mods or patrollers at least and if someone has reported thousands upon of thousands of posts then they will likely be beneficial to the forum (unless theymos knows something about them that I don't). All you can do is keep reporting and maybe one day you will become a chosen one.