Badges
What the record shows.
Nothing here is awarded. Every badge is a sentence about the board — has posted five proofs, holds recognition on three problems — checked against the record each time this page is opened.
A mark you place on your own proof counts on the board but never toward a badge; everything below is measured from other readers only. Badges tagged Standing describe the present and can be lost — recognition moves, the laurel resets in January. Founder and editor are not badges: they are jobs, and they are already shown beside the name they belong to.
Sign in and each badge is marked unlocked or locked as you read, with how far along you are.
The work
Proofs posted. The only family you can earn on your own — everything below depends on other readers.
First proof
Posted a proof to any problem.
The hardest one to get, in the only sense that matters.
Clave RazerFrank LiNick P
3holders
Recognition
What the room did with your proofs. Marks you placed on them yourself are not counted.
RecognizedStanding
Holds the most convincing marks on a problem.
Comes and goes with the marks, exactly as the brass rule does.
No one holds this yet.
0holders
Ten convinced
Ten convincing marks from other readers, across any number of proofs.
No one holds this yet.
0holders
Found beautiful
Five beautiful marks from other readers.
Beautiful is one per problem, so five means five problems.
No one holds this yet.
0holders
Three times recognizedStanding
Holds recognition on three different problems at once.
No one holds this yet.
0holders
The laurel
One mark per reader per year, spent anywhere on the board. The scarcest thing here, and the hardest to be given.
Laurel givenStanding
Spent this year's laurel.
Resets in January, whether or not you used it.
No one holds this yet.
0holders
Twice laurelled
Two different readers have laurelled your proofs.
Two people, not two proofs — a second laurel from the same reader is a different year of their life.
No one holds this yet.
0holders
Building the board
Problems proposed and talk in the rooms — the work of making a board worth answering.
Interlocutor
Ten replies under other people's proofs.
Your own proofs do not count; arguing with yourself is free.
No one holds this yet.
0holders
For proofs
The badges above describe a person. These describe a single proof, and sit under its title. They follow the same rules: read off the record each time, and a mark the author placed on their own proof never counts.
Settled
Ten more convincing marks than not-convincing ones, from readers other than its author.
Gallery piece
Five beautiful marks from readers other than its author.
Behold.
Five hundred characters or fewer, and three beautiful marks from other readers. Named for the proofs that are a picture and a single word.
First at the board
The first proof ever posted on its problem.