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The active badge is going away.

Spammy accounts are aggressively gaming the system to get the badge. 
Making the rules stricter just makes it harder for legitimate users.

We’re past the point where a simple rule based system will work. We need something better.

1/ power badge reinforces the need for 'reputation' in social networks and communities. it helps align incentives of the users/community towards meaningful/quality engagement. fighting spam becomes a byproduct. 
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onchain reputation at karma3labs and @openrank

What if posts get assessed for quality content through community up voting and commenting... once it hits a certain threshold, people are awarded badges.  There can be levels/plateaus that users work towards and they get filtered up a pipeline.