Kraatos started a thread a while back,before all of this.Reviews "I see that a lot of established punters have a set number of punts in a month . Yet the number of reviews never adds up . While they moan about the lack of reviews they are practicing on what they are preaching".Maybe this thread started all of this????

By definition this is a virtual forum, and as such anonymity rules for me. I will avoid meeting other punters for privacy reasons, ditto ESA staff. To a certain extent same principle applies to posting reviews, as such is giving away rather private info. Hence I do not, unless is was exceptional - in a good or bad way, and unfortunately the latter is more common it seems.
I'll leave anything mediocre/average/fine out as I agree with whoever said there is no point in posting such reviews just for the sake of posting and/or adding to an already existing list, but may make an exception for a new girl with a virgin slate.
I do read reviews though, but scale their weight by their authors. Anyone reading here regularly will be making up his own mind about others, irrespective of them having badges or not. The "Me, me me.." in this thread tells clear tales in this respect, please do note ;-)
However, I do think the badges make this forum a bit more colourful, even when viewed via a monochrome screen.

@SexYouCupid While I would be honoured if my post was the basis for the punter's badge system , I can safely say that ESA's idea of this was conceived much before .

Such funny responses to the topic and it is clearer with the comments and icons, those that have a bigger punting 'issue' than me or maybe they just spend big. Anyway some of the icons are amusing, but a Charity badge??? I heard that you can get the Charity badge if you go to visit a WG but realize that the photos were wrong and DEFINITELY NOT your spec/type (including a bait & switch), but you still make a significant charitable donation without the service (because your mind won't let you), you can then qualify for the Charity Badge - because life is hard. I understand that you can also get it if you always aspire to have a typical 1hr session but out of the punt in less than 1/2 hr.
Like I said, I just heard. Funny post indeed!