User blog comment:Gavin The Otter/i only edited once on feb 3/@comment-25779269-20170204024408/@comment-25056812-20170204033939

Badges are very important to me.

Without them, I wouldn't be well known. If I wasn't well known, I could just join in on conversations, and no one would realize I was even there.

So yes, badges mean a lot to me.