derpibooru's badges

@JP  
It’s a shitlist– hence the scroll– for users the mods have decided are frequent troublemakers/thread-ruiners, but who aren’t consistently duckish or disruptive enough to warrant a Duck badge. There’s one user I know of who used to have a Duck but dialed back the constant shitposting far enough to get promoted/demoted to Mystery Badge #1, and one who started out new here by overtly trying to get Mystery Badge #1, but overplayed it and got a Duck instead.
 
TL;DR: “Pisses off the mods enough to be branded for it, but not often enough to merit a Duck”.
 
It’s a SEEEECRET because they don’t want to encourage people to act like occasional asses just to get the badge, since that’s more likely to just breed more Ducks; the point of the badging system is to promote behavior that actively helps the site, like uploading funk-tons of popular images or helping translate comics.

@TexasUberAlles  
I just saved a screenshot of that post so just in case a mod doesn’t like the fact that you just gave that away, I can see it anytime I want c:

the guy knows! shut it down!

@The Smiling Pony  
Can I have a hint for the little Squirrel? I like cute things and I want it :O

@TexasUberAlles  
Close, but not quite; it’s actually not the specific user’s actions themselves that earn the badge, or at least not always or not intentionally.
 
To be more specific, it’s a badge for people that “somehow” always manage to be present in shit threads, but aren’t the direct instigators for it, are unintentionally so, or are too stupid to merit the “troll” titled carried by a proper duck badge.

So I am assuming that the squirrel badge is earned by being the opposite of a troll?

@Seabridge Drive  
it’s zippysqrl’s secret.
 
he gives out the badges.

@Seabridge Drive  
I made the assumption that it’s a reverse duck badge of sorts.

I once sent my guess to TSP as to what Mystery Badge 1 is, and he told me it was the opposite of what I had guessed. But now I don’t remember what I guessed, nor did I figure out what exactly the opposite of my guess was.

@dt  
Or possibly you didn’t guess anything.

@dt  
iirc you or someone asked me if it was for people we were considering for mods.

@The Smiling Pony
 
You mean it’s not?

@The Smiling Pony  
Then why don’t I have it? (Kidding.)

@TexasUberAlles  
@The Smiling Pony  
So my theory was almost correct.
 
Now, to figure out the premium badge…

@JP  
Subscribe to derpibooru premium, duh.

@zippysqrl  
But where can I learn about Derpibooru Premium?

@Registered Anon  
Yeah, what do they get that regular users don’t?

@SeraphimDawn  
Apparently, they get a special badge telling everyone that they’re a Premium, and that they’re allowed to look down on non-Premium members.

@Registered Anon  
Look down on other users?! We would never do such a thing! Not without good reason, at least.  
I only look down on those who unfairly look down on others, _{like siden}

@zippysqrl  
I was joking.

@Registered Anon  
I know.

Just one thing I’m curious about: Is the Squirrel badge given out for a reason, or is it just arbitrary? If the former, I don’t want you to tell me what it is, I’m just wondering if there is one at all, that’s all.

@SuperSupermario24  
It’s a bit of both.

@zippysqrl  
Alrighty.