What is LeGuin and why do I have to have a miniuium of 15 character for this subject title?

[pert]

@SniffTheGlove

What is LeGuin, I have looked on Google about Disclosure and nothing is there. There is also a badge called LeGuin but again it does not say anything else.

These badges are based on your post count. They were around in the old forum in some form but some new ones were added with the switch to Discourse. You can see the old scale here:

Not a God member any more

Ok guys, I gave the categories a revamp and I came out with the following: Newbie: 0 Jr. Member: 50 Full Member: 100 Sr. Member: 250 God Member: 500 Edison Member: 1000 Faraday Member: 2500 Tesla Member: 6250 Shannon Member: 10000 Brattain Member: 15000 If there is anyone making it to transistor inventor level I will have to send that person flowers /d

And see the available badges in that class here:
https://forum.arduino.cc/badges#ember147

You might notice that they are last names of prominent people in fields relevant to the Arduino project. Maybe you can guess what the significance of "LeGuin" is now.

We are promised to hear about the new scale "very soon":

Do you like the new forum?

@alto777, that is a good question. That mechanism is pretty useless for seasoned users hence the funny (or unamusing) effect of getting a new badge every day. They are actually designed for newcomers because they reinforce positive behavior and facilitate learning-by-doing. They usually help forum moderators in mitigating the inappropriate behavior from new users. You can read more in this write up: The Gamification So for the first days we will all be granted many badges, but of course this w…

@SniffTheGlove

so should the Karma Title reflect the number of like from other people to you? If it stays at 1+ then it’s a meaningless title.

It's a "binned" system. You can see the bins here:
https://forum.arduino.cc/badges
so you're only 40 s away from a new karma badge.