Toe in the Water

Psst, Buddy - Wanna Badge?

Psst, Buddy - Wanna Badge?

Lately, there seems to be an outbreak of selling MBs and Awardicons for various favours or payments. Maybe I’m reading these things incorrectly, but it seems that. if you enter this or that contest, pay a certain amount of GPs, or perform specified actions, you get one of the awards.

Not wishing to buck the system or complain, but isn’t this defeating the object of awards? I thought they were indications of some merit (hence their names) but this must erode any value they have. The powers that be have certain systems (called CR) to prevent the mismanagement of awards, obviously with a view to preserving their value as indicators of achievement and merit, but selling them seems the most direct route to their devaluation in terms of worth.

Obviously, I’m missing something somewhere. I must be. Otherwise how can the two SMs stand by and see their award system undermined in this way? And don’t be fooled - this is what lies at the end of the sale of awards. Why else do you think the Quill Awards are already held in higher esteem than the number of MBs and Awardicons collected? You can’t buy a Quill, no matter how flawed it’s valuation system may be.

Okay, rant over. Now you can explain to me where I’m going wrong.


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