But the badges won't give you any direct advantage to earn money in this forum, except good recognition from other member.
Additionally, actively reporting posts doesn't prove you can make good posts which needed to join signature campaign, so i don't see any serious problem from badge.
In the same way as merit started to matter in (some) bounty /signature campaigns, sooner or later those badges may matter too. Also, humans are suckers for badges, you should know that.
Did it occur to you that then people will focus on reporting?
I think that's the point.
The more people start reporting worthless spam posts, the more will be deleted.
And more spam being deleted means people will actually focus on not spamming this forum for a few cents.
Sorry, I was not clear enough about my concerns. I was concerned about abuses in reporting, about too many reporting the same posts, about reporting posts that maybe don't need reported, about a bottleneck in mods activity.
From the report-page:
Do not worry about your accuracy too much; one accurate report is worth many inaccurate reports.
I somehow missed that line. OK, then maybe I was overly concerned about a non-problem.
But another requirement for the badges could also fix this potential problem.
Combine a minimum amount of good reports with a minimum amount of accuracy. Then people won't start reporting hundreds of posts just to get a few good ones out of it.
Yep, this indeed sounds good.