Why is there no badge for submitting bug reports about the products?

[Helge]

The badge system is a nice idea to encourage community activity.

I just would like to ask why submitting bug reports is no such encouraged activity? As soon as I want to submit a bug I get transported to Tech Support which is completely disconnected from the rest.

I think a bug reporter badge would be a great Idea (on) for the community to actually help improve the products we work everyday with.

regards,
Helge

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

It's a nice idea for a badge, but I foresee one significant problem - most bug reports are duplicates, and Atlassian are trying to cur down on duplicates by discouraging these. 

Naturally, I suspect the best idea would only to grant badges to people who report new bugs, but then we'd need a mechanism to grant badges when they're accepted as new, or to remove a badge when something is spotted as a duplicate.  And there are fuzzy cases where some get merged!

[Helge]

Yeah, I guess Badges would encourage submitting Bugs. But nevertheless, even if they are duplicates they are worth beeing submitted anyway because it adds to the metrics HOW OFTEN a bug hits people. This is valuable information to prioritize work on closing bugs.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Atlassian measure that by looking at the votes and volume of comment on the main bug.  i'm not sure I'd bother with a badge that says "I have this bug too" - I'd only really value the new bugs I'd not had before.

But it's always worth voting on bugs to tell Atlassian you're seeing them too.

[Kat Warner]

It would also be nice for partner accreditations and certifications to be reflected in badges but those are recorded elsewhere too.

Have you see the bounty page? Money > virtual badges for some people.