We staff have decided that it might be a good idea to open the awarding of badges up to the members, not just the staff.  The staff aren't perfect and can sometimes miss some good opportunities to award badges to members for some of their excellent or distinctive content.  So if you feel like you have been overlooked for an award you deserve - let us know!  Tell us which piece you think deserves what kind of award/badge and why and we will consider granting it to you.  You can also suggest awards for other fellow composers' works!  Refer to the following list of manually awardable badges.  If a badge doesn't exist for your particular achievement you can suggest new badges/awards in that thread:

 

I'm surprised no one wrote anything here YET, so:
I'm a history buff, theory buff and orchestration buff
I got performed just once...
Am a period composer (of late 19th century and early 20th century dances)
Brass aficionado and woodwind aficionado
Dance music impresario for that matter
Amorous romanticist
Programmatic composer
I don't know if 1930's cartoon music counts for "film buff" or "film music enthusiast" but I am a buff of that
And I almost composed the soundtrack to a pastiche of that but that thing was cancelled so I'm not even a debatable "film composer"

1 minute ago, MrBelegro said:

I'm surprised no one wrote anything here YET, so:
I'm a history buff, theory buff and orchestration buff
I got performed just once...
Am a period composer (of late 19th century and early 20th century dances)
Brass aficionado and woodwind aficionado
Dance music impresario for that matter
Amorous romanticist
Programmatic composer
I don't know if 1930's cartoon music counts for "film buff" or "film music enthusiast" but I am a buff of that
And I almost composed the soundtrack to a pastiche of that but that thing was cancelled so I'm not even a debatable "film composer"

Thanks for your enthusiasm!  Do you have a specific piece you want a specific badge awarded to?

1 minute ago, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

Thanks for your enthusiasm!  Do you have a specific piece you want a specific badge awarded to?

Outstanding orchestrator and Better than thatguy (in this case I've outbeaten Julius Fucik and Leo Chernetsky and that was my goal) for "March Hare" march

Hi @MrBelegro!

Welcome to the forum!

18 hours ago, MrBelegro said:

Outstanding orchestrator and Better than thatguy (in this case I've outbeaten Julius Fucik and Leo Chernetsky and that was my goal) for "March Hare" march

For the Outstanding Orchestrator badge, you may look into pieces below which are awarded the badge for your reference:

For the "Better than Thatguy" badge, actually it's named so because one of our moderator's username is @Thatguy v2.0, so you may check out his works to see if you are better than him or not lol!

Henry

19 hours ago, MrBelegro said:

Outstanding orchestrator and Better than thatguy

Some badges must me earned. Some are given freely, but there is one badge that rules them all. 

Legend holds that a mysterious "better than thatguy" badge is given only to a chosen few. You must search through the members profiles and sift through their badges to gain further knowledge.

I wish you well in your quest. 

5 hours ago, Thatguy v2.0 said:

Some badges must me earned. Some are given freely, but there is one badge that rules them all.

Oh I see. Sorry for this. Your username sure is "generic" though and that could have led me to even more "trouble".

On 2/26/2026 at 2:17 AM, MrBelegro said:

Oh I see. Sorry for this. Your username sure is "generic" though and that could have led me to even more "trouble".

Just playing around 🙂

Glad there's interest in the badges, I forget about them 😄 

Can you nominate colleagues here?

I’d love to see @Alex Weidmann recognised as ‘Outstanding Orchestrator’

guys hear me out. “ the fruit hunter award of excellence.” when I review a piece of music for a competition and it demonstrates it’s excellence then it gets the special honor of my award of excellence. This always has been something that has been in my head after listening to a really good composition so it may be a gimmick that i may picked up.

in order for a piece of music to qualify there are two gates

The total average of the score is 9.5 or greater

If a piece of music, is that a threshold of 9.45-9.49 but the taste score is 9.75 or higher then it will also receive the score

but this is just my little stupid idea that I have it kind of just rolls off the tongue and I thought it would be fun to present it to y’all

Hi @Fruit hunter

First off, I think this belongs in the List of Manually-Awardable Badges thread as that is where new kinds of awards would get proposed. But I don't think you should bother about requesting it because creating such an award is:

1. Lacking in meaning.

2. Can easily be replaced by a simple "Like" reaction from you showing your approval.

3. Would be too overwhelming - what if every member of the forum requested their own unique award to be able to give out to members?

4. In any case - only staff are able to give out awards so you wouldn't be able to award the badge at your leisure but would have to continually request the staff to award each individual badge which would be logistically challenging.

But of course - feel free to suggest other kinds of awards about specific characteristics of submitted pieces or their composers! Thanks for your interest.

Yeah, again it was kind of a random idea that popped in my head. This was purely out of curiosity it’s fine.