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Originally Posted by Halx
One of the principle standards of the TFP is to discourage popularity contests. That's why the categories here do not define opinions, only actions.
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I don't have a strong opinion one way or another about the awards, but I had a couple of thoughts:
Actions and opinions are not mutually exclusive. The categories listed above must defined by the collective opinion of the moderators. (Unless there some objective criteria that will will be used to assign membership to a particular category). Anyone's opinion (moderator or not) of who should win an award must be based on a subjective assessment of the actions of that individual.
For most of the categories, people already have their own ideas about who is a good moderator, mentor, etc. Why should someone care about the moderators' assessment of exemplary behavior?
Is a badge from the moderators necessary? What are the costs and benefits of adding badges? Will the effect of badges be similar to when post count was reported on everyone's post? Will awards increase good posts? Or will they undermine intrinsic motivation to post well?
Again, I don't care one way or another and it's obviously been decided already.