I work at Discourse. As a regular user, if you want to prevent these new user badges (and notifications), head to /u/yourusername/preferences/interface and check "Skip new user onboarding tips and badges".
replyIt is in our plans to eventually rework how this new user education and notification system works, and I suppose eventually with https://id.discourse.com/ the intent would be that your preferences follow you to every Discourse site you sign up for, so you could just set it once.
As an admin, badges can be disabled entirely, or individually.
Thanks, I'll have to look into it too, though the gamification sounds annoying AF.
replyI responded to the other comment, but I work at Discourse. As a site admin you can disable badges (which is our gamification system) entirely, or you can get rid of individual badges.
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I hate the scrollbar hijacking and lazy loading on larger threads.
replyI just want pagination and to use my stock browser features...