Pembo get on it
i'm certainly not saying this is an important or necessary feature but implementing it so an owner mod can upload a black and white image that will then be shaded appropriately and giving mods the added option to award the badge or give preset reasons to award badges automatically would be less time consuming than most of the tasks on phabricator. on the plus side, it would give vain people reason to broaden their horizons of their usage of the site beyond the subs they came here for.
I guess it could be done that way, but image uploads would start costing the site more over a long period of time, that's why all of the icons are font based.
i appreciate the dedication to efficiency but i think strictly thinking long term for a project with mere months of funding is foolish. unpopular, underutilized, and inefficient features can always be turned off but allowing a captivated user base to slip through your fingers is voat's doom. more ought to be done to differentiate phuks from reddit and voat, particularly in ways that make a user want to contribute without punishing them for lurking.
It is very simple, but it's time consuming. I don't have the link for the ones we use, but all of the the icons on Phuks are like these things. The admins would need to make a ton of different badges, and it would be difficult to find icons suitable for certain things. Then they would have to implement something that would let mods assign them, so an entirely new feature would need to be coded into the site for that to happen.
It would be nice in the future at some point maybe, but there are more important things to spend time on atm.