Removing Badges
😊 Hi, kind reader
There is a badge I absolutely do not want in the collection I have on my profile. It is both untrue and offensive to me. 😱
So.... 🧐how can one remove or have a badge removed from the list?
😍 Thank you for your input, if any
@Fradiga Now I'm trying to guess the badge!
I think previously there's been more success with renaming if it isn't a role-based badge.
@AffyAvo
Thank you for replying. The badge I'd like to eliminate is the Oath Taker badge. I disagree with the oath and never took it, hence I wonder why it is on my page. Would you know how to proceed? Thanks for any help!!
Hey there @Fradiga, do you mean the "listener oath" badge?
This badge is a requirement for accessing some of the group chatrooms, as mentioned Here.
And it's auto-rewarded to listeners when they reply/ make a post in this listener oath thread, so probably why you've recieved it as well.
The mentioned oath constitutes a general acceptance of what us listeners should follow here, I feel. What about this badge makes you feel uncomfortable and offended, if okay to ask?
I'm unsure if it can be removed manually, but tagging an admin so they can assist you better with it! @ASilentObserver 💛
@Sunisshiningandsoareyou
Thanks for the offer, Shining!
I am not aware that I took an oath anywhere since becoming a listener back in March 2020 and I regularly see in my notifications that the Listener Oath was taken by yet another person. I read that oath, and personally, I found it to be meaningless. Chalk it up to my generation or my culture, but it made me cringe. I noticed that I had that Oath Taker Badge in the list of Badges I have and I wonder whence it came and if it is the same thing?
@Fradiga
You're so welcome always!
Ooh, I just see the "listener oath" badge on your profile, not one that says "oath taker" (so hoping we are referring to the same thing?), and you see it in notifications when there's a new post to the listener oath badge-thread?
Now typically, we receive these notifications from the threads we are subscribed to, and it happens two-ways: when we make a reply to the thread we are auto-subscribed to it, unless we check off the "subscribe to this thread" box while replying OR when we manually subscribe to a thread.
And you have the listener oath badge on your profile, so I'm guessing, even if you didn't actually "take" this oath, probably during the time you've been here, you might have replied in that thread. (I think it was mentioned somewhere how certain threads are auto-linked with certain badges, so a reply in those threads could auto-reward you the relevant badge so mentioned)
I hear how the specifics of the terminology could come across as cringey and to put it simply, "a little extra", and you've raised a valid point around the same. I now wonder if the people setting that name for the badge really dug in deep into it haha, but I personally quite agree with your suggestion, about the boxes, and perhaps a rephrasing, if it feels more comfortable to wear on our profiles!
Something to suggest/ mention to the team, perhaps? Please do go ahead. 💛
@7cupscommunity @ASilentObserver if you could take a note here for our peer's initial request, would be much appreciated. 💛
@Sunisshiningandsoareyou
While I have no problem with the various responsibilities described, this type of oath, after all, is unenforceable. An oath of office, for instance in the US, is something in the political tradition (and it is often broken anyway). The oath on this website has no legal bearing and just sounds a tad grandiose. What I think the 7cups admin should come up with is a list of what is expected of the listeners and boxes for the aspiring listeners to read and click. I think it would be more cosmopolitan to do it that way.
