The criteria for this application have changed a few times, most notably in August 2020 when the program was changed to 'reward active and engaged servers'. This badge is added to accounts which successfully achieve partnership on a community they own. The Partnered Server Owner badge indicates members of the Discord Partner Program, which has seen several significant changes since its introduction. This badge is more of a perk of employment, as opposed to a source of perks, however the badge does grant users free Discord Nitro while active. Discord boasts several hundred employees, meaning there's several hundred people with this badge on the platform. Discord employees have the ability to hide this badge at will. This badge depicts a hammer & chisel, the name of the company that owned and operated Discord, before changing the company name to Discord Inc.

The badge has seen two changes since its release, changing from a white mark with an old Blurple mark within the first year of Discord's operation, then changing the colour of the badge from the old Blurple to the new Blurple with the rebrand in 2021. This only includes individuals with full employment with Discord, and typically not contractors (translators, writers). The Discord Staff badge indicates members of the Discord employee team. First, we'll cover each individual badge, in the order they appear in-client (This also happens to be caused by its flag bit size, which we will cover later in this article). The above image is altered to show all badges, this user is not Discord staff.ĭiscord offers many badges for end users to obtain and the official article on Discord badges is heavily outdated/incomplete & encourages some of the negative perceptions of Discord badges, which we'll cover at the end of this article. In this article, we're going to cover the methods for earning each badge, the history of each badge, discuss other flags that aren't surfaced in the form of a badge & talk about the effect Discord badges have had on Discord-Meta culture. Discord account badges have long been a point of pride on Discord, seeing much evolution over the years since the introduction of the Staff & Partner badges.

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